Word: luisa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Maria Luisa de Arana Duke. 39, Madrid-bred descendant of Spanish nobility, third wife of State Department Protocol Chief (and tobacco heir) Angier Biddle Duke, graceful giver of benefit parties in Washington and New York, star campaigner for John Kennedy in Spanish-speaking East Harlem; in the crash of a single-engined taxi plane; near New York City's La Guardia Airport; as she was returning to her Southampton summer home, shortly after helping her husband say goodbye to visiting Pakistani President Ayub Khan at Idlewild...
...during the Loeb production, he charted fourteen "good" traits, which read like the Boy Scout Oath, and one fault (she lost he temper readily). Brecht's failure to elevate Grusha above generic goodness is particularly telling since he conceived the play in order to write a special part for Luisa Rainer, an expatriate German actress. His failure exemplifies the weakness invariably cited by the Communist critics: Brecht could create noble agitators and good proletarians, but never a flesh-and-blood working class character...
...County's fertile fields, picked beans, carrots, tomatoes and onions. But their children had a different job. After breakfasting on Coca Cola, the youngsters boarded a bus for school in Fort Lupton, where they listened intently to a second-grade teacher: "Armando, get me the cup-cup-cup. Luisa, pick up the plate-plate-plate." In the fifth-grade room, a shy girl of twelve whispered in Spanish: "I want to be a teacher someday. A fifth-grade teacher." After paying 13? apiece, the youngsters downed a hefty lunch, wrapped seconds in paper napkins to take home. Each child...