Word: maestro
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...next 23 years (Guatemala's rich get tossed $204 million). ( Naeva Presencia, Guatemala, University of San Carlos, Facultad de Economic, July, 1970) Twelve of every one hundred children die before age four, six on them from measles. The illiteracy rate is the second highest in Latin America. (Juan Maestro Alfonso, Estudias de la vida rural en America Central, Madrid, 1969, cited in Madrid, Jan, 17, 1970) Since it leaves the people "vulnerable to Castroite propaganda" (quote from ex-president Fuentes, Alerta, May 31, 1970, p. 3) education is not stressed. And as for how they eat, the director...
...power in 1956; he was heralded then as the man who could hold the country together. In his own cautiously individualistic way, Gomulka did just that. His 14 years in office are proof that he has retained the wily political acumen that led Poles to describe him as "The Maestro." No wonder that so many thoughtful Eastern Europeans have said: "To understand Poland, understand Gomulka...
...unpopularity, Barbirolli was an impressive conductor. He was the embodiment of the classic American caricature of the maestro. His stature, his long flowing hair, his stately appearance, and his knighthood completed the effect. Appearance does not assure good press, though, and Barbirolli never got it. While most of the great British conductors-Beecham, Goossens, Sargent, Boult-stayed primarily in their native country, Barbirolli came to America to conduct the New Pork Philharmonic when Toscanini left it in 1937. His disastrous career here insured him of a bad critical reputation for the rest of his life...
...speaking film (The Touch) by the great Swedish director Ingmar Bergman. It took only one film-Getting Straight -for Bergman to decide on the American actor. "I fell for him immediately. He's fantastic." Gould has yet to meet his new director, but a phone conversation with the maestro was enough to overwhelm the easygoing actor: "I felt like I was talking to Abraham Lincoln...
...Maestro's account, his birth in Catalonia on Dec. 29, 1876, was not auspicious. "The umbilical cord twisted around my neck," he writes. "My face was black, and I nearly choked to death." At the age of four, he began studying the piano with his father, the church organist in Vendrell. At twelve, he was already a virtuoso cello player and was on his way to revolutionizing cello technique. "There was something very awkward and unnatural in playing with a stiff arm and with one's elbows close to one's sides," he explains...