Word: uruguayans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tango tunes put together by the Tin Pan Alleys along the Plata, the one locally regarded as No. 1 is La Cumparsita. Gerardo Hernán Mattos Rodríguez, a Uruguayan, wrote it in 1916. An architecture student at the University of Uruguay, he had seen a group of boisterous fellow students, evicted from their rooming house, pick up the tables and chairs and march out in a noisy procession (cumparsa). That gave him a title. He quickly knocked out a doleful melody and a set of lyrics that were soon replaced by those of a rival lyricist...
Unforgettable Faces. Portinari lives in an old Portuguese colonial house with faded shutters and a tangled garden in Laranjeiras, a Rio suburb, with his dark-eyed, trim Uruguayan wife and their eight-year...
...music critic, he kept right on attacking weak flanks. He fired his potshots impartially at the great & small. He denounced Erich Kleiber and Eugene Ormandy for sloppy guest -conducting, upbraided Chilean tenors and Uruguayan baritones for untalented concertizing. The daily pounding put Chilean artists and musicians on their guard; it also raised Santiago's music standards considerably...
...Chilean peso is worth 4?. A smart operator once bought a 30,000 peso stack, of chips (worth $1,200) at Viña, flew to Montevideo where a casino used identical chips, cashed them for 30,000 Uruguayan pesos-worth...
...usual, the complexities of a Uruguayan election were enough to make even a Frenchman's head swim. The predominant; Colorado (Red) Party-liberal, democratic, and international-was split into four groups, each with its own presidential aspirant. The leader of the Batllista faction, suntanned ex-farmer Tomás Berreta, 70, had the best chance to win. The Blanco (White) Party had dissidents, too, but for the moment they were united behind the presidential candidacy of tall, white-thatched Luis Alberto de Herrera, 73. Herrera, "last of the South American caudillos" ("chiefs"), had for 30 years given the Blancos...