Word: ora
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Antolin finds Madrid a city swamped in extremes of poverty and black-market corruption, ruled by ubiquitous police, in & out of uniform. His own family drives him to alternating spells of despair and disgust. Señora Luisa, his wife, has become a stranger, ugly, shrewish, and a convert to the rage for spiritualism in which many of the poor seek a solace they cannot find in the church. Juan, the younger son, is an underpaid factory worker and a Communist. Daughter Amelia, frightened, hypocritical and ill, wants only enough money to buy her way into a convent and escape...
...Refugee's Answer. Before Antolin's visit is over, Juan has been killed by Falangists, Señora Luisa is on the verge of insanity, and Pedro deeper than ever in criminality. Overwhelmed by what he has seen in so short a time, Antolin buys Amelia into her convent and prepares to return to England. Perplexed and saddened, he is sure of one thing: he cannot live in Spain...
...vast expanse of his fatherland, no more ardent or versatile Peronista ever breathed than Oscar Ivanisse-vich, 45, onetime Argentine Ambassador to the U.S. As a surgeon he had removed the appendixes of both President and Señora Perón. As a poet he had composed the official party march, Peronista Boys. As Minister of Education, he distributed to his schoolchildren a saccharine pamphlet on Evita, "The Good Fairy of Argentina." Every morning on entering his office he bowed low to his patrons' pictures on the wall...
...ora Maria Unzue de Alvear was one of the few women listed in Argentina's Who's Who. A plump, little old lady who lived out her declining years in piety and good works, she gave an estimated 1,000,000 pesos ($112,000) a year to charity. She could well afford it; her family, which had given Argentina one of its most distinguished Presidents (Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear, 1922-28), owned a good million acres of rich grazing land...
When brisk, breezy U.S. Ambassador Stanton Griffis made his first official call on Señora Perón at her ministry last month, he met Tambour and presently suggested that the dog ought to have a mate. The Señora agreed. Griffis telephoned his New York secretary, and within 48 hours Sylvia, a six-month-old silver poodle, was on her way to Buenos Aires...