Word: ros
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...barracks-fat soldiers around the Sierra Maestra showed less and less hunger for the fight. In the long stalemate the rebel army grew in size and fervor. Castro talked and talked of his dreams for Cuba, sitting up until dawn in the huts of the guajíros-the squatters who farm the rugged mountains. "It is not right," he said, "that a man should go to prison for robbery when he is able to work, wants to work and cannot find a job." The guajíros nodded gravely and joined...
...still characteristic and convincing. The concerto, expertly played by Harpist Nicanor Zabaleta, was paler, but it did have 'some gripping episodes, notably the haunting harp harmonics accompanying a string song in the slow movement. Both works were put in the shade by the concluding piece, Chôros No. 6 (written in 1926), a fine tropical thunderstorm accompanied by pagan drums...
...servant in the state of Rio Grande de Norte's finance department. In those days an imaginary social-economic boundary divided the state capital of Natal (turn-of-the-century pop. 16,000) into two distinct dietary sections. On the lower ground, near the sea, lived the cangulei-ros, the poorer people who ate a cheap fish called the cangulo; on the higher ground lived the more prosperous xarias', who could afford to eat a more succulent fish called the xareu. The part-Indian Cafes were canguleiros...
...Readers & Ros...
...last week, adaptable Ros was happily adjusted to Manhattan living. She is looking for a new apartment and impatiently awaiting the arrival of her husband and nine-year-old son. She claims not to miss her immaculate, airy, French Provincial home in Beverly Hills, her swimming pool, or the happy round of dinner parties. Meanwhile, she is catching up on family reunions: her 78-year-old mother, her sister Josephine and her lawyer brother James still live in or near Waterbury. Her sisters Clara (who became an editor of Town & Country) and Mary Jane (who was once a LIFE researcher...