Word: alonso
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Quest Within Quest. A Spanish squire named Alonso Quijana, "tall, lean, lanky, with cheeks that appeared to be kissing each other on the inside of his mouth, [and a] neck half a yard long and uncommonly brown," goes clear out of his mind from reading tales of knight-errantry. Renaming himself Don Quixote, and his jag-jointed nag Rocinante (translation: formerly a hack), the madman enlists a local farmer, one Sancho Panza, as his squire. Breathing the name of his ladylove, Dulcinea del Toboso (in real life a husky farm girl named Aldonza Lorenzo that he has never said...
THIS IS DON QUIXOTE DE LA MANCHA. He is pummeled by his squire, and at last dumped off his horse in a put-up tourney and forced under oath to give up his quest. Beaten, Alonso Quijana admits that Don Quixote was mad. "In last year's nests there are no birds this year," he says, and dies of a broken spirit...
...hand at the ball will be Master and Mrs. Gordon M. Fair in costume, along with Professor and Mrs. Amsdo Alonso who are the evening's judges. The dance is free, but only bona-fide House members will be admitted...
Star of the evening was Cuban Ballerina Alicia Alonso, who only five years ago had to quit dancing because she was going blind (operated on three times, she lay flat on her back with eyes bandaged for a year, finally regained her sight). Alicia, the best of the younger classical dancers, had seldom done modern dance before. But, right after dancing the queen in Swan Lake, she returned to the stage as Lizzie, to sub for ailing Nora Kaye. Alicia, as much as Agnes, made Fall River Legend an opening-night success...
Included among these will be professors from five American universities, poet W. H. Auden, English novelist Ralph Bates, and two presentations of music from the Cervantine period. Harvard representatives on the slate will be Amade Alonso, professor of Romance Languages, and Jean, Joseph Sexnec. Smith Professor of the French and Spanish Languages...