Word: ricans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...length the tragedy of the Indians of the East, uprooted and sent West on the Trail of Tears. But in the next section, Colleague David Herbert Donald (who writes crisply on the Civil War) reduces the entire Indian conflict in the West to one paragraph. Americans of Puerto Rican or Mexican origin are given hardly a nod, and then a misguided one: the book asserts that Cesar Chavez's United Farm Workers movement "declined...
Emily M. Schneider '80, who will speak on the work of a Puerto Rican poet, Julia de Borgos, said she had become involved because "there's a paucity of things about women going on here...
Since that childhood triumph, he has climbed to more impressive heights. Last year in Montreal, he swam for the Puerto Rican Olympic team, and although he failed to qualify for the finals, he set Puerto Rican national records in both the 200-and 400-meter freestyle swims. He has also joined the Puerto Rican team three more times for competition in the Central American Games...
However, Fayer added that her quick success was largely a bad reflection on the Puerto Rican women's swimming program. She said, "Puerto Rico's program for women was quite poor, and as a result, many of the swimmers quit by the time they were 16. I came in at a time when many of the women were quitting...
...Broadway. "I don't want to take the easy way out. I want to be independent and make my statement alone," she explains. Her statement turns out to be that of a "sensitive girl who falls into hooking" in Jockeys, a new play about a Puerto Rican jockey on the way up. To research the part, Pam grilled a prostitute acquaintance for details of the life. She even slipped out between rehearsals to Manhattan's raunchy Times Square to gain insight into the local working girls at their trade-and to have her picture taken...