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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Suburbia. Their first house was on Staten Island, where they met Edwin Markham and formed a friendship that endured until Markham's death. Muñoz' translation of The Man with the Hoe is still regarded as the authoritative Spanish version...
...kind of automatic transmission in his mind which enables him to shift his conversation or speeches into language of such needle-sharp simplicity and directness that it can go straight to the heart and mind of the humblest and least educated hearer. This has been a priceless gift. Muñoz built his political career on the support of Puerto Rico's jibaros, the small farmers and rural workers who comprise about 70% of his island's population. They are still the bedrock basis of his power...
...Sense of Fellowship. Muñoz himself has an almost mystical feeling of fellowship with the men of the countryside. Says he: "Our people have a real sense of what sovereignty means-perhaps better than anyone else in the world. We don't have sovereignty in the old-fashioned sense, but we do have freedom. Plenty of nations today have sovereignty without freedom. Our people know that the old-style colony is a dead thing. But they also know that there's no sense turning colonies into little nations; that would be like rebuilding two-wheel carriages into...
...Legend. Muñoz came to politics almost by birthright. His father, Luis Muñoz Rivera, often called Puerto Rico's George Washington, headed the colonial government in the latter days of the Spanish rule, and in 1897 obtained from the Madrid government a charter which provided some autonomies (e.g., the right to make trade treaties with foreign nations) which Puerto Rico does not have now. After the cession of Puerto Rico to the U.S., Muñoz Rivera was invited to take a cabinet post in Madrid. He declined. He chose to stay in Puerto Rico, later...
Over the years a legend has grown up that Muñoz was a spectacular bohemian in the turbulent Greenwich Village of the '20s. The fact is that he only lived in the Village a few months. Through much of his New York life he and his young wife -Muna Lee, another young poet-were bourgeois suburbanites...