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...Children of Sanchez, by Oscar Lewis. A tape-recorded documentary in which each of five members of a slum-dwelling Mexico City family tells of his own struggle for respect, love and individuality. Far from the dusty aridities of social science, the book offers a powerful, touching and intimate view of the long, and far from simple, annals of the poor...
...Children of Sánchez is the story of a family of live slum dwellers in modern Mexico City. Oscar Lewis, a University of Illinois anthropologist who has devoted most of his career to Latin America, met the Sanchez family in 1956 during a study of Mexico City's Casa Grande vecindad (tenement). He took a preliminary look at them in a 1959 book describing a day in the lives of Five Families, concluded that the Sánchez clan was typical of much in Mexican life and decided to study them in depth. The book is told...
...poor-with their startling mixture of faith and cynicism, brutality and love-have compelling social and political significance to the U.S.; they describe some of the problems that plague Mexico's poverty-ridden, one-party democracy, and, for that matter, much of Latin America. Not that the Sanchez family is anti-American or envious of U.S. riches, as one might expect; on the contrary, its members see the U.S. as a land of hope...
...strongmen by Portugal's milder Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, Trujillo had been the model for every tinpot, medal-jingling dictator that ever rifled a Latin American treasury. Even as he died, he was on a typical Trujillo mission-a midnight meeting with one of his many mistresses, Moni Sanchez, at his San Cristóbal farm, 15 miles from Ciudad Trujillo...
...roommates--at one time numbering 11--possessed a wide range of personalities and backgrounds. Although most of Lodge's friends were Bostonians like himself or New Yorkers, the residents of the suite in Randolph included a couple of Midwesterners and a Cuban named Thorvald Sanchez, whose father managed a string of dairy farms. John Mason Brown and Corliss Lamont provided a literary aura. James M. Newell, Jr., Lodge's immediate roommate, can recall heated arguments between Cabot, who then admired his grandfather's stand against the League of Nations, and the vehemently liberal Lament, who once urged the Union...