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That feeling has unfortunately been strengthened by the misfortune of the honorary associates program. The associates' visits have been the most publicized and least productive phase of the Institute's activities for undergraduates. The associates, according to the original conception, were supposed to let professors rub shoulders with policy-makers and to enthuse students with the prospect of politics. Neither aim has been well served. The visits of McNamara and Goldberg turned into bitter and exhausting confrontations with dissenting students, and the undergraduate meetings with other associates often turned out to be dull, especially for the associates. Many...
...FUTILE LIFE OF PITO PEREZ, by José Rubén Romero. A great Mexican classic gets its first English translation. Pito Perez is a south-of-the-border Everyman, and his story illumines the national character of Mexico...
...FUTILE LIFE OF PITO PEREZ by José Rubén Romero, translated by William O. Cord. 151 pages. Prentice-Hall...
...personification of the national character. Bloody, absurd, splendid, his story seemed to mirror Mexico. The Futile Life of Pito Perez -his equivalent U.S. name would be something like Penny Whistle Jones-was not so much an instant bestseller as an immediate national classic. Its author, José Rubén Romero, became a figure of renown* But strangely, until now, Pito remained untranslated...
...General participating in the "Officers to the Ranks" movement noted that "privates chat with generals freely without the least restraint. They rub shoulders with one another and slap one another on the back, calling one another 'Old Change,' 'Old Li,' 'Old Comrade.' The enlisted men would tell us what they think and discuss with us such intimate matters as their girl friends, often asking for our advice...