Word: rez
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...least a month, Dulles will have to work fast; he plans to stay only a week or ten days. This week the conference got slowly under way at Caracas' spanking new University City with a welcoming speech by Venezuela's President Marcos Pérez Jiménez. Topic A the first day was not conference business at all but the Puerto Rican Nationalists' attack on U.S. Congressmen in Washington (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...FINAL HOURS (273 pp.)-José Suárez Carreño-Knopf...
...past three months, and the second to show that thoughtful and compassionate Spanish writers take a grim view of life. In The Hive (TIME, Oct. 5), Camilo José Cela highlighted the plight of poverty-stricken Madrileños. In The Final Hours, José Suárez Carreño, 39, portrays the night life of Madrid and offers a world where love is impossible and the human condition hopeless...
Author Suárez' soberly bitter story centers on three characters and is concentrated in one night. Carmen is the young daughter of middle-class parents who has turned prostitute to help pay the bills. Angel Aguado is middleaged, rich and impotent. He seeks "a purity based on frustrated sexuality," and Carmen is the girl he has "elected for his despair." Manolo is a street boy possessed of enormous dignity, though he lives on petty chores and thievery. He is deeply attracted to Carmen, though he has seen her only at a distance...
Author Suárez' pessimistic fatalism is not calculated to win him wide readership in the U.S., although in Spain he has reaped a harvest of literary honors. He has won the Adonais Prize with a volume of poems, the Lope de Vega Prize with a play, and the Nadal Prize with The Final Hours, his first novel. U.S. readers will not have to share Prizewinner Suarez' gloomy attitude to respect his accomplishments as a novelist...