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...contra campaign that would cause all 12,000 or so rebels to flee Nicaragua and wander through their country in bands, toting American arms. Already, the country is feeling the strain of serving as a haven for Nicaraguan youths who flee the Sandinista military draft and arrive penniless in Honduras. Fundamentally, though, Honduras has cast its lot with the U.S. One of its most insistent demands is for a stronger U.S. guarantee of its security than that provided by a 1954 treaty. As long as American troops are on its soil, Honduras seems safe. Its fear is that the Americans...
...father, a Budapest dentist and an amateur violinist, put a fiddle in his son's hands when the child was four, and for a time Ormandy seemed destined for the life of a touring virtuoso. Stranded in America after a promised concert tour failed to materialize, he was nearly penniless when he drifted into New York City's Capitol Theater and landed a job in the pit orchestra in 1921. Within a week he was named concertmaster; three years later he made his conducting debut leading a shortened version of Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony. Blessed with a nearly flawless memory...
PART OF THE PROBLEM with the movie is that it is fantastically realistic. After all suspension of disbelief can last just so long. Is it really possible that eight penniless teenagers can clean, paint, and redecorate, let alone locate, an apartment in New York within hours of arriving in the city? Will the parents of these wayward youths really remain quietly buried in the suburban depths of Sandusky, Ohio, while their children cavort across the streets of New York missing school, cheer leading practice and Sunday night dinner? And, to get right to the point, how much energy and ambition...
Crocket writes up tragedies every day, stories about Chuckie, an 8-year-old autistic foster child, or 8-year-old David, whose penniless aunt rescued him from his mentally ill mother who threw dishes and chairs at him and his three sisters, or about 6-year-old Peter from a rundown public housing project who wrote to Globe Santa asking that his 4-year-old sister Martha get some dolls to play with...
...book's setting is Chicago in the 1930s, an era of celebrity gangsters, ruined financiers, penniless immigrants, left-leaning intellectuals and psychotic anarchists, all of them interconnected in Von Hoffman's ruefully comic invention. The period is as rich and varied as the turn-of-the-century New York City of E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime, and the range of real-life characters is even greater: Hoodlums Al Capone and Frank Nitti and Machine Gun Jack McGurn, Mayors Big Bill Thompson and Anton Cermak, Roman Catholic Cardinal George Mundelein, Utilities Tycoon Samuel Insull and Assassin Giuseppe Zangara...