Word: narciso
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Francis Barnard, the poet, and David Lloyd who played Narciso, the lover, were also very fine. Marshall Heinbaugh, as Selim the Turk, was the only principal really beyond his element. It may have been the beard encircling his face, but every sound he made was so mufiled that the stage seemed three times further off than the one block it actually...
...needed money, trade stabilization, a general economic overhauling. The U.S. needed a powerful demonstration of hemisphere solidarity. President Manuel Avila Camacho needed a big deal to back up his strong anti-Axis stand, his appeals for U.S. collaboration. His Minister of Foreign Affairs, suave Dr. Ezequiel Padilla, known as Narciso Negro (black narcissus) for his elegance, needed a triumph to swing Mexico's foreign policy back to close relations with Britain and the U.S. One thing stood in the way-oil. Between the $175,000,000 at which the oil companies are reported to have valued their seized properties...
...Narciso Rich, like Forester's Horatio Hornblower (TIME, May i, 1939), is capable of intelligent reflection; but he is not by nature a man of action. He is, rather, a sort of Leopold Bloom light-ballasted for a more adventurous sailing pace: plump, humane, timorous, uneasily involved in thoughts which set him, in the late Middle Ages, on the borderlands of heresy and of the Renaissance. Without quite understanding why, he has committed himself, in the middle of a tabby life, to sail with Columbus on his third voyage, as guardian of the Spanish King's interests...
When they get to Española (Haiti) Don Narciso sees what just six years of white rule can do: Christianized Indians who die rather than work and who, through mere imprisonment, die in a few days "like fish in a bucket." Hardly has Don Narciso got his shore legs when he witnesses the burning alive of sixteen here tics; he sees next what happens to 20,000 Indians in spontaneous desperate rebellion. Stark naked, all of them, men, women and children, they advance in a brown wave, using stones and sharpened sticks, to dissolve into panic before the first...
Columbus' brothers, in charge of Española, are by no means trustworthy, his ex-valet Roldan is in open revolt. Columbus himself is arrogantly, piteously aware that there is not a man on earth he can trust. It is Don Narciso's business to report to his King that "the Admiral was not fit to govern a farmyard, let alone an empire." He dislikes his task, but takes comfort in the thought of sailing, on the morrow, for Spain and the quiet life. Kidnapping, hurricane, shipwreck, a Crusoe sequence delay his return. When he finally sails...