Sublime

By these very books, many uneducated and even crude fellow citizens of his became devoted to letters. ALBERTI He counted them as brothers, and all others eager for learning, and whatever he came to know, he voluntarily communicated to them. ALBERTI He turned over those discoveries of his which were worthy and important to any who could use them.

Under the appointed mainland officials served elected Puerto Rican ones, less powerful but much cannier about local affairs. Chief among these was Luis Muñoz Marín, the leader of the island’s dominant party, who towered over the political scene from the 1940s through the 1960s. John Gunther deemed him “the most important living Puerto Rican.”

There was no better way to demonstrate aloha than through entertainment.

Father George Hurley, for example, eschewed programmatic solutions for the urban black poor, urging his followers to counter racism with prayer and positive thinking.