Word: sanchez
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even the Communists no longer try to hide what Labor Minister Augusto Martinez Sanchez last week aptly called "truly a great mess." In a 31-hr. TV interview, Martinez Sanchez outlined eight new labor categories in which Cuba's 2,400,000 workers soon are to be frozen in a drive to get more work for less pay. To qualify for the maximum pay in each category, workers will have to fulfill new work norms based on productivity. Those who fall short face even further reductions in wages that are already as much as 50% lower than the days...
...movie adaptation of Katherine Anne Porter's Ship of Fools. In Rome, between sessions with De Sica, he popped around to Miss Porter's hotel room to confer with her on the script. In Mexico, he was also collecting impressions for his script of Children of Sanchez. Soon he will be in Georgia and Mississippi soaking up attitudes for his version of MacKinlay Kantor's Anders onville and William Faulkner's Light in August...
...protagonists stand out: Jesus Sanchez left his peasant home at an early age, coming to Mexico City, and eventually finding work in a restaurant. At the time of the writing he is 50, still works for the restaurant (in addition to holding several odd jobs), and supports 25 people in three dwellings, two of which are one-room affairs. Jesus is living with one of his three surviving common law wives (he had five, in succession). Immediately impressive is his energy, his strictness, his often fickle generosity. He plays favorites with a vengeance, seemingly contradicting his own heart...
...also gives a few appalling statistics about the situation of the poor in Mexico, such as that one and a half million of the four million residents of the capital live in deprivation equal to or worse than that of the Sanchez family, and that according to the census 89% of all Mexican families earn less than 600 pesos ($69.) month...
...avoids "sentimentalization and brutalization. The latter, yes, but when he later states that the poor are "the true heroes of contemporary Mexico, for they are paying the cost of the industrial progress of the nation," he confuses heroes with victims in an unabashedly sentimental fashion. I doubt that any Sanchez thinks of himself as a hero: to the often great extent that they see how much they are victims of themselves as well as of social crisis, they emerge as a family that tells us that people are about much more accurately--and of course, movingly--than any social scientist...