Word: miguel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Real Man. In naming the world-renowned Chilean poet, Communist and ambassador to France, the academy picked another controversial figure. He is only the third Latin American to be given the coveted prize-following his high school teacher, Chile's Gabriela Mistral (1945), and Guatemala's Miguel Angel Asturias (1967). Some feel that his immense output-by his own estimate, some 7,000 pages of poetry-is occasionally marred by obscurantisn and Marxist propaganda. But Spanish Poet Federico Garcia Lorca, who was killed during the Spanish Civil War, praised Neruda as "a real man who knows that...
...noticed them as they came running arms linked," Mexican journalist Juan Miguel de Mora said, "in a way which reminded me of films that I have seen of Hitler's storm troopers.... These men didn't wear uniforms, but their paced run was very military.... I saw them hit with clubs and sticks the students running in all directions. Two or three were caught and savagely beaten...
Major Juan Mereado, the commander of the riot squad, and Sgt. Miguel Rosario were shot as riot police surrounded the university student center. A lieutenant of the riot squad said that the shots came from a sniper hidden behind a statue in front of the building. Jacinto Guiterrez, R. O. T. C. sergeant, was also killed...
...villa on the Côte d'Azur, the 30-year-old painter, sculptor and ceramicist-who was born in 1881-winked at his guest of honor, Italian Movie Actress Lucia Bose. Her child, Paola, whose father is Spain's retired superstar of the corrida, Luis Miguel Dominguín, is Picasso's goddaughter, and Lucia's presence, quite obviously, put him in an expansive mood. Why, someone asked, do the peaceful doves for which he is so famous never have any feet? Because, said Picasso, his father, who was an impecunious art professor, used...
...Cooney agrees; this year there will be less repetition. In response to complaints from inside and outside the staff that the show's approach was too Waspish for its audience, Mrs. Cooney has approved a more emphatic ethnic style. A black Muppet, Roosevelt Franklin, has become a star. Miguel (Jaime Sanchez), a Spanish-speaking actor, will be an occasional host. The show will also be less male-oriented; a female writer has been added to give it a more feminine slant...