Word: hispanicism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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VILLA MILO, by Xavier Domingo (192 pp.; Braziller; $4). Paco, the hero of this flavorsome but uneven novella, is a foundling growing up in a brothel. The madam, the preposterous Doña Fili, is his presumptive mother. Blanca, one of the prostitutes, is his mistress-business and her moods...
On the Sidelines. The U.S. Government, so plainly opposed to a Communist-supplied base 90 miles from U.S. shores, was obviously going to come in for a storm of leftist agitation and a good deal of Latin American criticism, if its part in the exiles' activities became too obvious...
In this mood they traveled the U.S. from San Francisco to Manhattan, touching at Philadelphia, Albuquerque, Pittsburgh, Chicago and Washington. They were stuffed with facts about the U.S. educational system, fraternity houses, cement plants, free enterprise, soil-conservation projects and a calendar printing plant. They were briefed by State Department...
The materialism of modern technological civilization has been especially serious in Latin America because of the nature of Spanish Catholicism. "Traditionally, Spanish Catholicism has been highly spiritual, almost mystic. It has never been, as we could put it, an 'Incarnation Catholicism' -it has never been very concerned with...