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Passionate protagonist of Texan bilingualism is Mexican-born, Texas-trained Edmundo E. Mireles, who runs Corpus Christi's grade-school Spanish education program. Linguist Mireles (he knows seven languages) spends his days teaching Spanish, his nights brushing up the high-school Spanish of other teachers who strive to keep one Spanish jump ahead of their pupils. Because Mireles says it is unnecessary to know much Spanish to teach a little, some pedagogues eye him askance. But he argues from results...
When the playgoer comes into the theatre and sees the first two characters on his program (the protagonist and his conscience) he draws a deep breath and prays. There is no artifice so flimsy as the conscience-on-the-stage gag, or one so easily collapsible if poorly done. That the show comes over as well as it does is due to a large extent to a new young actor who plays the conscience--David Wayne...
...Real Adversary. Bolivia is a small and pathetic pawn; the real protagonist is Argentina. Revolution in Bolivia would have stirred hardly a ripple if it had been solely a Bolivian affair; the U.S. has recognized other juntas, other Fascistlike regimes in Latin America. Even now the issue is not simply that Argentina's authoritarian regime stands accused of sponsoring a similar regime in Bolivia. The issue is that these regimes endanger...
...have seen strong minded, determined women-haters melt into the love-mellowed spectacle of a grinning newlywed. And why? Simply because of unpreparedness. "Know your protagonist" to paraphrase a current war-poster, that's part of the answer. You too can suffer your own personal Pearl Harbor. This dissertation is designed to fill in the gaps and to cover your Achilles Heel with moral mortar...
...protagonist in Washington's latest fracas is tough, shrewd Ferdinand Eberstadt, artillery captain in World War I, outstanding independent investment banker of the '305, and currently charged with WPB's vital materials division. The other is Charles E. Wilson, whom Donald Nelson brought to Washington to take charge of WPB's production division...