Word: mexicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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COUNT ROLLER SKATES, by Thomas Sancton (383 pp.; Doubleday, $3.95), whizzes its screwball hero right through the mentally sound barrier. "Count Casimir Poliatoffsky" poses as a Polish nobleman and simultaneously claims to be descended from the Maya gods and the lost tribes of Israel, but he is actually half-Mexican. He once flopped as the star of a roller-skating show in Italy. Now he is a skilled grease monkey in a ship's engine room, and this uneven, offbeat first novel begins when one of the count's shipmates takes him home for dinner on a shore...
...puzzled over Mr. De's refusal to become merely another Cadillac-comforted caricature. He pursued learning as others pursued the black gold. "So you're the Texan who can read," remarked a cynical reporter one day in the library of De-Golyer's impeccably furnished Mexican-style palace in suburban Dallas. Standing in the huge, 15ft-high room choked to the ceiling with some 20.000 volumes-which ranged from rare editions of Copernicus and Francis Bacon to the best sin gle private collection of works about the Southwest-Mr. De assumed a country-boy pose, pshawed that...
...Spanish times" where did the Mexican Indians get the bananas which, along with corn, they used to stuff their Xolo dogs and bring them to hoglike fatness [TIME...
Disneyland (Dec. 19, 7:30 p.m., ABC) takes Donald Duck into Latin America and TViewers to the traditional Mexican children's celebrations, the posadas...
Architect Eero Saarinen's description of the castle at Brandeis University as "Mexican Ivanhoe" [Nov. 19] reminds me of Sinclair Lewis' equally unkind characterization of modernist structures as "glass-fronted hen-houses." The castle (see cut) was designed by my father, Dr. John Hall Smith, founder of Middlesex University, to house the classrooms and laboratories of its School of Medicine. More befitting the medieval grandeur of our castle are the lines of Wordsworth...