Word: mexicans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...soapbox edition of children's poetry. A collaboration between Robert Coles, Professor of Psychiatry and Medical Humanities, and Sherry Kafka, a former Loeb Fellow, the anthology was born in a creative workshop program in South Texas elementary and high schools, where most of the students are from Mexican immigrant families and speak English as a foreign language. And yet Kafka's preface immediately clears the book of any charge of smugness: "The selections...were chosen because they were the most representative of the writing we received," she says, "not because they were the best. "If the purpose of I Will...
What Coles and Kafka offer is definitely something more than a poetry anthology-it is a refreshing approach to social studies. The book actually examines Mexican immigrant culture in South Texas through the eyes of its children, its most honest and innocent citizens. Aged six to 17, the children reveal about their lives everything from their daily activities of school and migrant from labor to the many shocking realities they must face, as well as their ambitions for and fears of the future...
...during the royal couple's 1975 visit when one profoundly confused male official approached the Queen and, instead of bowing, curtsied. The Prince, to help the man out of his embarrassment, good-humoredly curtsied back.) Queen and consort played expertly to easy audiences in the Caribbean, and faced a Mexican public eager for distraction from its peso troubles. At week's end the royal couple could look forward to their accustomed favorable reviews from royalty-dazzled democrats...
...little Hotel Montejo in Mérida, Ted Mills and Jill Heizman of Santa Cruz, Calif., paid only $5.50 a night, about the average price they encountered during a month-long tour of Yucatan. Such bargains are all the more remarkable considering that this is the peak of the Mexican tourist season...
High-quality Mexican leather goods are a particularly choice buy: handmade boots for $20, handbags from $15 up. Exquisite native handcrafts cost so little that five Continental Airline stewardesses flew to Mexico City this month just to shop for items like black Oaxaca pottery vases for 23? each. Olinola lacquer boxes, with their distinctive red-and-black animal designs, sell for as little as $2.50; designer clothes and auto rentals can also be very cheap. A cab ride across downtown Mexico City costs...