Word: humberto
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Lucia. The second fussed-over film from revolutionary Cuba to pass through here recently, some say that this is even better than Memories of Underdevelopment. Made by the 31-year-old Humberto Solas...
Farah's union-busting tactics must continue to be blocked. Boston's Humberto Cardinal Medieros and the leaders of the Massachusetts state federations of Jews and Protestants have endorsed the boycott. The boycott must continue...
Union-busting is a particularly repellent strategy the rich and the powerful use to retain their supremacy. This strategy must continue to be blocked. Boston's Humberto Cardinal Medieros and the leaders of the Massachusetts state federations of Jews and Protestants have endorsed the boycott. We urge that the boycott continue...
...central figure of the book, its fantasy-struck narrator, is a failed, elderly intellectual named Humberto. He is the caretaker of a huge, decayed and sparsely tenanted religious retreat house near Santiago. Those few others who live there-a mother superior, a few female orphans and a handful of ancient housemaids-know Humberto only as "Mudito." The name means "Little Mute," and indeed no one knows that Humberto can speak...
...characters remarks, "Humberto had no talent for simplicity. He felt the need to twist normal things around." In fact the old man is simmering away in wild daydreams, and he is not the only one. Most of the characters are obsessed by the legend of blessed Iné, a child saint of witchlike proclivities who is said to have rescued the retreat house from an earthquake long ago and stayed around to haunt the place ever since...