Word: rican
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rapid and successful implementation depends, to a large extent, the future of freedom in this hemisphere." So saying, President Kennedy last week chose a man to run the U.S. end of the Alliance and help make it a going concern. His choice: José Teodoro Moscoso, 50, the Puerto Rican economic planner who was in large measure responsible for the success of the island commonwealth's Operation Bootstrap and now serves ably as U.S. Ambassador to Venezuela...
...from Wall Street," Ballot found exactly what he was sent to find: a New York family living in the same poverty and filth that LIFE'S camera had shown in the Rio slum. Photographer Ballot sighted in on the family of Felix Gonzales, 53, a Puerto Rican immigrant and part-time car washer...
West Side Story is a resetting of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet in the race-riotous slums of Manhattan's Upper West Side. Romeo (Richard Beymer) is a white boy, idol of a teen tong called The Jets. Juliet (Natalie Wood) is a Puerto Rican girl whose brother (George Chakiris) is the leader of a rival street gang called The Sharks. As in Shakespeare's poem, the star-crossed lovers meet and love and find their fate in the ugly shadow of suspicion that divides their kindred. Unhappily, the literary parallel, though it lends the piece...
...release, are Splendor in the Grass, a bitter harvest of frustration and failure written by William Inge and directed by Elia Kazan, and West Side Story, the widescreen, cinema version of the Broadway musical tragedy, in which Natalie enacts the poignant role of Maria with a carefully coached Puerto Rican accent and dubbed-in songs...
...Nazerman's joyless routine is unset. His family had died in August, and each Summer, like the recurrence of some odd tropical disease, the memory of their torture returns to him. Sol's nights become long, sleepless nightmares; during the day, to the astonishment of his Puerto Rican apprentice, he fumbles through business in a trance, unaccountably appraising brass as gold. In one such August, the pawnshop is robbed; the apprentice-whom Author Wallant. with a disturbingly heavy hand, has called Jesus Ortiz-steps in front of a bullet meant for Sol. In a torrent of long-restrained...