Word: neruda
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...jobs in Córdoba's vineyards. His father taught him to shoot-and started him rambling through some of the 3,000 books, mostly leftist sociology and history, that crammed the family bookshelves. The boy was entranced with the works of Chile's Communist Poet Pablo Neruda, memorized many of his poems...
...into motion. During the day he was the merciless martinet, intolerant of weakness and inspiringly confident. In the evening he taught tactics and the use of weapons, read to his men from Cervantes, Robert Louis Stevenson and the Venezuelan novelist (and ex-President) Romulo Gallegos, or recited Pablo Neruda's Communist poetry from memory. As they proved themselves in battle, his men proudly christened themselves "Che's Suicide Squad...
Aware of their rise, the Eleventh Congress resounded with confidence. Delegates re-elected a secretary general, Schoolteacher Luis Corvalan, 48, and President Elias Lafferte, 72. Brought back into the party's politburo was world-famed Poet Pablo Neruda...
...strong likes and dislikes. He loves gardens and animals; he" detests noise, the letter G (in his poems he always uses J instead) and most modern Spanish-language poetry, especially the work of Chile's Communist-lining Pablo Neruda. His favorite poet, Jimenez once said, is God. Jimenez' own poetry is lyrical, impressionistic, polished, nonpolitical. Because of the translation barrier, he is little known outside the Spanish-speaking world, but within it he is widely regarded as the language's greatest living poet...
...Mexico, bulky Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet and consul general, celebrated the New Year with friends at the resort town of Cuernavaca. As the group drank up to "Viva Roosevelt" and "Viva Camacho," ten heel-clicking Germans Heil-Hitlered, split open Neruda's head with a blackjack. Next day five Mexican politicos formally offered to duel with the Nazis...