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...Lenin Workers Training Center, and the elegant home of a former friend now houses an embassy. The greatest change is the appearance of an entirely new vocabulary. Tracatrán, a new coinage onomatopoetically suggesting machinelike response, refers to a person who carries out orders implacably; parquear la tinosa means "to park the buzzard," or pass the buck; saram-pionado, or "measled," describes someone who shows a rash of too much Marxist-Leninist theory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Worm's-Eye View | 7/7/1967 | See Source »

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