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Bartok: Sonata No. 2 for Violin and Piano (Rafael Druian, John Simms; Mercury). Written at Bartok's most dissonant period, in 1922, this rarely heard sonata bursts with haunting effects. It contains whole sections where adjacent notes sound sweet as a simple triad, others where the same kind of crowded combinations become strident and even brutal, and yet the whole mysterious piece works out as logically as a Haydn minuet. It is expertly played by the concertmaster of the Minneapolis Symphony and Pianist Simms...
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...attack was launched by vengeful followers of Costa Rica's onetime (1940-44) President Rafael Calderón Guardia, who was blocked from seizing power in 1048 by present President José ("Pepe") Figueres. The military commander was Captain Teodoro Picado Jr., a Costa Rican exile and 1951 West Point graduate...
...peerless leader has disclosed that the re-establishment of the office of Vice President is being considered," reported El Caribe, newspaper mouthpiece of Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, the Dominican Republic's Generalissimo, Ambassador Extraordinary, Benefactor, etc., etc.-and for the past 24 years its Dictator. It was electrifying news. Anyone named Vice President would obviously be under grooming to take over the presidency, currently held by the Benefactor's brother and puppet, Hector Trujillo. Approving letters, marveling at the "brilliant suggestion of the Benefactor," began to appear, day after day, in the paper...
...young Dominicans get from their Maximum Leader . . . incomparable intellectual preparation." And that led to a logical conclusion: the minimum age for the vice-presidency, and the presidency, too, ought to be lowered from 30 to 25. Strikingly enough, the most visible Dominican in that age category is Major General Rafael Trujillo Jr., 26, better known by nickname "Ramfis...