Word: mexicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tousled white hair quivering rhythmically, his ruddy, jovial face radiating glee, Alexander Calder was beating a steady tempo on the African tom-tom. Swirling around him, clanging a Mexican calabash rattle, clattering a huge Swiss cowbell, tinkling a melody on dangling wires, were his friends -writers, painters, musicians. A gentle breeze delicately spun the forest of mobiles hanging from the ceiling of the Connecticut farmhouse. Suddenly "Sandy" Calder stood up, walked outside past sentrylike steel stabiles, shuffled to a nearby creek. Staring at the soft, easy ripples, Calder exclaimed: "Look at those tiny waves, circling, soothing, yet so much alive...
...prep students pestered Ergil to play lemon. Result: twice a week, after school hours, he conducts a seminar in philosophy. Ergil gets no added pay for the course, and students get no course credit, but attendance is large, even on afternoons when the baseball team plays at home. A Mexican farm laborer's son assessed the seminar: "Everywhere else people tell you what to think. In other classes, reasons are given out of a book. Here, I get them out of myself...
Unfortunately for Pajarito. neither the referee nor Bassey was listening. After a between-rounds breather in Los Angeles' Wrigley Field last week. Bassey came back to throw so many punches so fast that his muscular Mexican opponent might as well have been tilting with a windmill. A savage uppercut separated Moreno from his mouthpiece with such violence that third-row fans caught the spray. Even when he was completely off balance, Bassey almost removed Moreno from his haircut with a pair of left hooks and a right uppercut delivered in split-second succession. At the end of the third...
Pajarito's defeat was a national disaster to a loud army of Mexicans who had been stampeding northward for days. They had jammed up at border stations, scrapped for space on airlines. So many of them swarmed into the stadium that when the band struck up The Star-Spangled Banner to start the brawl, the music was drowned out by their shouts of "Down in front!" After Moreno was peeled off the canvas and the announcer asked for "a hand for the beaten boy," the leftfield cheering section responded with a raucous Mexican razzberry...
...wrote the book for Broadway musicals ranging from Garrick Gaieties to Annie Get Your Gun; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Son of Slapstick Comedian Lew Fields (Weber & Fields), Herbert was the first librettist with the Rodgers & Hart team, later did such hits as DuBarry Was a Lady and Mexican Hayride with Cole Porter, collaborated on many shows (Up in Central Park, the forthcoming Redhead) with his sister Dorothy...