Word: juanito
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...Carlos immediately went to work in the new government. For many of the rest, real work in the Revolution began in 1961, with the literacy campaign, Lazara, Raul, and Juanito were among the thousands of teenagers who went to the countryside to teach the peasants to read and write. So was Alberto's sister, and his mother worked in the campaign as well. Carlos helped to administer...
...Also Juanito Duffy, 19; Marion Fienberg, 21; Meg Raymond, 22; Janet Press, 18; Nancy Gretsky, 22; Enid Sippen, 21; Jill Wattenberg, 20; Vicky Gahiner, 27; and Susan Hagedorn...
Widow Marichal: Juanito! What do you want with this ball business? SCENE...
...series of accidents propel Juanito from Naolinco, his native village, into the outside world. He becomes a fisherman, a night clerk in a hotel, a hired pistolero, and finally returns home to take over Naolinco as its all-powerful cacique, or village chief. He goes from faded canvas pants to the garish socks, yellow shoes, felt hat and necktie that for him are the power symbols of the ruling señores. Juanito kills his first man from passion, his second for self-preservation, his third and fourth from pride. Yet when a lethargic justice at last executes...
...drawn by Author Clément, a Frenchman who has lived in Mexico and Colombia, Juanito has animal strength and animal cunning. In a time of trouble he might have become another Pancho Villa. In a time of peace he is simply an anachronism, tolerated by the señores because he keeps his village quiet, but readily expendable when he grows too big and too troublesome. Sitting in his death cell, Juanito reflects that of all his crimes the most serious was the driving of the schoolteacher from Naolinco. Too late he recognizes that "the schoolmaster had been right...