Word: plata
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...like the feel of the crowd-"les marts," he contemptuously called them, "the dead ones." His playing was listless until midnight, when the dead ones left, and an enthusiastic group of flamenco appreciators-some gypsies among them-arrived from Aries. Then 29-year-old Ricard Baillardo (Manita de Plata, or Little Silver Hands to his admirers) came alive...
...Your hands are not of silver, but of gold." He moved among the crowd, found a pretty French girl, and sang her a Spanish compliment: "You are beautiful. Your husband is a silly man unworthy of you, and we should meet tomorrow." The girl smiled in mystification, and De Plata moved away. At last, before dawn, the concert ended. "I have rarely played so well," said De Plata. "I have the guitar in my heart...
...thing in common. All three were opponents of the Trujillo regime, and all were highly vocal partisans of the burgeoning new oppositionist group, the National Civic Union. Cabrera dis tributed the U.C.N.'s Santiago newspaper. Martinez and Clisante had helped transport people to a U.C.N. rally at Puerto Plata only the day before they died. When Clisante's body was turned over to his relatives, the head was beaten almost to a pulp. An enraged mob burst into the hospital morgue, draped a Dominican flag over the corpse, and paraded it through the streets, crying "Liberty! Down with...
...breaking with Cuba-a gesture that did not conceal the anger of President Arturo Frondizi (once called a "viscous blob of human excrescences" by Cuban Foreign Minister Roa) over a new Castro-Communist campaign in Argentina to raise "10,000 volunteers to fight to defend Cuba." Across the Rio Plata in Uruguay, beset by labor troubles and riots. President Benito Nardone pointed up the undercover organizing work of Castro's ambassador by calling openly for a break with Castro. Colombia and Bolivia have quietly sent home the ambassadors from Cuba, and though Mexico still pays its official respects...
Horacio Godoy, a member of the faculty of law at the University of La Plata, was the only panelist to question seriously the value of nationalism. He admitted that two nationalistic forces are currently at work in Latin America, "National Marxism and the orthodox social Christian aims," but he stressed that neither has much chance of unifying the continent...