Word: salvadors
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...brief and eclectic observations Kroch offers an impressionistic case study of a group which seems to be rapidly moving toward extinction. In "Bahia" Keith Aufhauser's intentions are slightly different from Kroch's. Aufhauser captures the flavor of daily life in a superstitious and unpredictably violent slum outside of Salvador. Both Kroch and Aufhauser have obviously become personally involved in the groups' difficulties, but they have avoided dull sentimentality and laconic pleas for sympathy...
...committee is encouraging those who signed the petition to write the President and explain their objections to the Administration's policy in Vietnam in greater detail. Any more detailed statement by the leaders of the committee could not be representative of all the signers of the petition, according to Salvador E. Luria, professor of Biology at M.I.T...
...dual penchant for poetry and psychiatry, Breton brought Freudian psychology into art and literature, turning to stream-of-consciousness and free-association techniques in his poems and dreamlike novels (Nadja, Les Vases Communicants), expounded his ideas in two Manifestes du Surrealisme (1924 and 1930), found ready disciples in art (Salvador Dali) and letters (French Poets Louis Aragon and Paul Eluard...
...Latin America, the name is so common that no one blinks when U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador, Raúl Castro, 50, introduces himself. But in the U.S., the handle can be a headache, particularly in places like Miami, hotbed of militant Cuban exiles, where the name of Fidel's kid brother and Defense Minister is anathema. "I was in Miami not long ago," the Mexican-born U.S. career diplomat told the Nucleus Club in Phoenix, "and 20 minutes after I checked into a hotel, the word got around that Raúl Castro was in town...
...Vice Admiral George Burkley, the chief physician, and Electrician Trophes Bryant, the unofficial keeper of the presidential kennels. She had stayed up the night before until 3 a.m., autographing color photographs of herself and Pat to be used as gifts for the staff. One sample, for Assistant Chef Nick Salvador: "With deep appreciation for yummy fried eggs and homemade toast, but most of all for your delightful sense of humor, your ever-smiling face and your friendship." At dawn, when the President of the U.S. went to the kitchen for an early snack, he found Luci there, too wound...