Word: norteamericanos
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...prudent reviewer will therefore not make ringing pronouncements. But it is clear that TTT can stand on the same shelf with Gabriel Garcia-Marquez's very dissimilar One Hundred Years of Solitude, and the provocative obscurities of Jorge Luis Borges. A much-impressed norteamericano wonders what else is hidden in the Latin trunk...
...does grant that there have been genuine advances in recent years. He is acerbic about the humiliating political strictures imposed by the Franco government, deplores the abrasive, remorseless poverty that makes even the dogs in the provinces scrawny and unlovable. Though he shares the passion of so many norteamericano writers for bullfighting, he also exposes it as a miserably corrupt racket whose only honorable figure all too often is the bull...
Sociologically, the film bids to be taken seriously: at a hundred points it sinks a daga of ridicule into the affluent society that has carelessly betrayed the people this movie portrays. A number called America! lets the hot air out of the norteamericano ideal of freedom...
Reaction in Mexico has been "very favorable," according to the tour manager, Prescott Wintersteen '63. Wintersteen said last night that the Instuto Mexican Norteamericano de Relaciones Culturales, the Undersecretary of Culture at the American Embassy, and many prominent Mexicans who have been contacted personally have all responded with enthusiasm...
...praise for President Kennedy's Peace Corps, and private misgivings that the corps organizers may forget to explore all the angles. Said one: "I think that after your government gives the girls and boys an examination, we Colombians should give them another. The most important question for a norteamericano going into the backlands is: 'Are you a Roman Catholic?' In our rural society, the village priest commands both the body and soul of the peasants. I'm afraid for non-Catholics, however noble the U.S.'s purpose...