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...poetry centers on the theme of man's projection into the world, not the interior life, he said. His major work is a 1700-page collection of poems called "Aire Nuestro...
...everyone is so successful, of course. Very often the poor remain poor. But there are differences nonetheless. On a small brass strip on a door in Brooklyn's sweltering Keap Street, the inscription says: Diós bendiga nuestro hogar (God Bless our Home). On each side of the inscription there is a tiny enameled flag, Dominican on the left, American on the right. Near by is a name plate that says: Familia Ortega. In the five rooms inside live Erasmo Ortega, 52, and his wife Eloina, 45, and seven of their eight children (a married daughter lives upstairs). Also...
...would give at mass the next day. After a few minutes there was a knock at the door, and a campesino walked in, hat in hand and shoulders bent over in what looked almost like a caricature of humility. "Padre, por favor, pudiera venir al cementerio, para rezar por nuestro companero?" So the priest, his face impassive, put on his black vestment, and we were off to the cemetery to say some prayers over the body of a campesino awaiting burial...
ACCION'S philosophy, as one leader puts it, is "not to give people alms, but to give them confidence in their own ability." At the Canada Honda slum in Maracaibo, residents organized by ACCION volunteers recently pitched in to build a community center, proudly naming it Nuestro Esfuerzo (Our Effort). Two years ago at the notorious Barrio la Linea outside Caracas, Communists sabotaged their projects and intimidated residents, but a new sense of community pride won out. One Communist leader is now a regular volunteer worker...
...Mexico, he was shocked at the gory penances that the Penitentes-also known as the Brothers of the Blood of Christ-exacted of themselves. Finally, he banned the group. But the Penitentes went underground. Their practices gradually softened, and in 1947 the church once again recognized the Hermandad de Nuestro Padre Jesus...