Word: platero
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...Business Administration is trying to help American merchants ride out the crisis by establishing a $200 million assistance program that includes Government-backed loans at 14.5% interest. Many sinking border businessmen see this as scant support. "We don't want SBA aid," says Calexico furniture-store Manager Roberto Platero. "We can take care of our own if we could find some way to exchange the pesos." But a meeting of several U.S. and Mexican Governors in San Diego a week ago produced no solutions...
...Platero is small, downy, smooth-so soft to the touch that one would think he were all cotton, that he had no bones. He eats everything I give him. He likes tangerines, muscatel grapes, all amber-colored, and purple figs with their crystal points of honey...
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...When the Nobel announcement came from Stockholm, it rattled the ice in U.S. literary tumblers because few readers had ever heard the name. Editorial researchers scrambled, learned that Poet Jiménez was known from Aragon to Argentina as a kind of melancholy, Andalusian A. A. Milne, particularly for Platero y Yo,* a collection of prose vignettes spoken by the poet to his burro about life and death in a Spanish town (TIME, Aug. 19, 1957). At the outbreak of civil war, Jiménez and his Vassar-educated wife (translator of Indian Poet Rabindranath Tagore) left Spain, lived thereafter...
...PLATERO AND I, by Juan Ramón Jiménez. One of the best-loved books of the Spanish-speaking world, by the 1956 Nobel Prizewinner-138 prose poems about life and death in the author's home town in Spain. The poems are addressed to the narrator's companion, a donkey, with bittersweet and sensuous grace and delicacy...