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...party in a virtually single party system. PRI has won all presidential and senatorial elections since the end of the Mexican Revolution, 50 years ago. Yet the government has institutions even stronger than PRI for directing Mexican life and progress. These are three occupational sector organizations--labor, peasant, and popular (middle class). Almost everyone in Mexico's working and professional force must belong to one of these three organizations. Since the president personally appoints all the top leaders in each sector, he can count on their loyalty...
...students are fighting for a more open democracy. The government's calls for large voter turnouts and other democratic forms seem like sheer hypocrisy to the students, since only one party ever wins. In their view, labor and peasant organizations which were originally meant to serve the workers by adding unified weight to their demands serve only the government in its efforts to control the country...
Americans tend to think of Europeans above the peasant level as highly sophisticated. Still, season after season, Broadway imports some foreign shows of such pristine simple-mindedness that they could not be fobbed off on a shut-in from Cucamonga...
...shave for months; in the interests of authenticity, the government turned down a Japanese firm's offer of fake beards. There were also Sassanians, Parthians and Safavids-right down to the 20th century, when the Shah's father, General Reza Khan, a professional soldier of near-peasant origin, seized power in a 1921 army coup. He was ousted by the British and Russians during World War II for inconveniently keeping his strategic country neutral, and the present Shah took over...
...daughter of Ezra Pound, for the woman who lived the life of a peasant foundling before discovering a larger world of harsher realities, it is not pretentious but compelling and revelatory to write of age-old plots being played out in the 20th century but "Somewhere between Mamme and Tatte's world on earth and God in Heaven there was an island of demigods not ruled by human laws. Here the range of imagination was wider, feelings more passionate and ruthless....Every myth I came to know, I believed in, and lived through, giving it new twists...