Word: mansions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thunder at the jibaros (peasants): "Be strong, have faith!"-and that sufficed. Sánchez, whom Munoz once called a "man of illustrious conscience," demands their participation in government, tirelessly urges Puerto Ricans to send their advice, criticisms and suggestions to La Fortaleza, the Governor's stately white mansion in Old San Juan. "We cannot maintain even for one more year the collective indifference toward the daily task of government," he pleads. "Let this be the year of the people's expression...
...concert halls of Europe. Sol Hurok brought him to America in 1937, and at 50, Rubinstein became a new idol. Everywhere, audiences clamored fqr him, and the critics threw superlatives at his fingers. During World War II, he moved his family to Hollywood, bought a rambling 15-room mansion next door to Ingrid Bergman and soon became movieland's great bon vivant. He chummed around with the Basil Rathbones and the Ronald Colmans, gave lavish garden parties, darted in and out of the gossip columns and society pages like a butterfly. There were self-deprecating chortles ("My profile looks like...
...three years since he went to the Governor's mansion in Cheyenne as a far-right-winger, Hansen has driven through the legislature a herd of programs to which the state G.O.P. was fundamentally opposed. He asked for and got an urban-renewal plan, an increase in the state sales tax and a boost in the state minimum wage from 75? to $1. Under Hansen, appropriations for state programs to combat alcoholism and mental illness jumped by more than 50%. The going has not always been smooth. "My opposition," says Hansen, "seems to forget that this is the 20th...
...rarely gave interviews about his work, never permitted journalists to pry into his private life, and refused to play the celebrity, the press made him something of a myth-laden enigma during his lifetime. The oddest myth of all is that Faulkner was a recluse in his classical Southern mansion in Oxford, Miss., and found company only in countless demijohns of bourbon while he wrenched out his primeval and difficult prose...
...avoid a draft call in 1918, declaring that they would not "fight against our kind." Erwin eventually surrendered, but Grover led the cops on a chase around the U.S. for a year and a half before he was found hiding inside a window seat in his mother's mansion. Sentenced to five years, he soon escaped, and this time fled to Germany, where he stayed until 1939, when he finally returned to serve his prison term...