Word: ateneo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...round the country. Many Spaniards were appalled by the fact that Puig had been killed by garroting.* In protest, Camilo José Cela, Spain's best-known contemporary novelist (The Family of Pascual Duarte, Pavilion of Repose), refused to take his seat as new president of the Ateneo, the country's most prestigious organization of thinkers and artists...