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Article: For Ralph de Toledano.(LETTERS)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- February 24, 2007
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Byline: THE WASHINGTON TIMES
I met Ralph de Toledano only last year.
I had come back to Washington, after many years and was reading his book "Notes from the Underground" when I found this passage:
Oct. 18, 1960
Dear Ralph,
The Montero is marvelous. [I had sent him a recording of Germaine Montero reading Garcia-Lorca's "Lament on the Death of a Bullfighter," his greatest poem.] I scarcely expected at my time of life to have the kind of experience that occurs at my son's age: something new and wonderful, since what the young woman is saying in the tone (more than any words) is what has always been there. I thank you for ...