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...main industry was always sugar production, and whoever controls Cuba's sugar has a large measure of control over most Cubans' earnings, the Cuban government--traditionally a government of the educated and well-to-do--and most Cubans' lives. In the 20th century, more and more Cuban sugar mills were bought by Americans, protected by occasional U.S. military intervention, and Cuban owners of small and inefficient mills were forced out of business. Large mill owners--many American--came to have a major influence on Cuban politics. Since these owners, controlling much of the available capital, had little interest in developing...
...young man, told him briskly: "Let's start working together at once. We are going to break traditional molds." In the next years, the two worked in close collaboration. Every few weeks, Miró traveled from his house in Majorca to Royo's studio, a converted flour mill in Tarragona, outside Barcelona. There Royo would spread his newest tapestries on the floor. Miró studied each, with all its intricate twists, sworls, braids and tailings. Then he might splash a design across the rhythmic shapes, or snatch up some scrap of cloth to provide an accent...
Died. Alan Wilson Watts, 58, onetime Episcopal minister who became a leading exponent of Zen Buddhism and a counterculture hero; of heart disease; near Mill Valley, Calif. Born in England, Watts came to America in 1938, lectured widely on college campuses and occasionally lived on a houseboat in San Francisco Bay. His concept of inner peace and release from what he termed "the chronic uneasy conscience of Hebrew-Christian cultures," made popular through The Way of Zen (1957) and his essay Beat Zen, Square Zen and Zen (1958), earned him an enthusiastic following that ranged from hippies to psychoanalysts...
Perhaps most Americans do not and cannot realize the magnitude of suffering endured at American hands by peoples whose skin is not white, whose language is not English, and whose political traditions derive from sources other than Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and John Stuart Mill...
...April Coalition was clearly not the October Revolution, neither was it run-of-the-mill American politics. For one thing, city council meetings often resembled meetings of Chilean campamentos under the Popular Unity government more than the obscure meetings of politicos that pass for council meetings in many American cities...