Word: auto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brought metal and pottery objects to their gods to seek good fortune. Then an Indian cast in the role of Lucifer, masked and cloaked in red velvet, capered into the area before the church doors. Thus began La Diablada (The Devilishness), Oruro's own version of the ancient auto sacramental (religious play...
Back in the 70th century, when the great Castilian dramatist CalderÓon de la Barca wrote the most sumptuous of all the autos sacramentales (Belshazzar's Feast, The Divine Orpheus), these religious dramatizations, similar to the earlier English mystery plays, reached their peak popularity. After that, their appeal dwindled and they all but disappeared from the holy-days celebrations outside the churches of the Spanish-speaking world. But in remote Oruro, 12,000 ft. up in the Bolivian Andes, the auto still flourishes with strong Indian overtones, and last week, as usual at carnival time, the show...
...interest in the Citroën auto works...
...Freedom & Democrorsia." Hell night's parade went on. A Puerto Rican seaman brought from jail with possible appendicitis, an ex-coal miner with chronic pulmonary fibrosis, a young boy superficially but painfully hurt in an auto crash. Sixteen babies were born, one by Caesarian...
...wartime Washington, promptly grabbed him. At Ward, Wood had been making $30,000 a year; at Sears, his salary and bonuses as vice president soon totaled $300,000. But Wood was not satisfied; he wanted to revolutionize Sears so that it could mesh gears with the revolution the auto had brought to the U.S. "Imagine it!" he says. "The country was filled with talk about the automobile, Henry Ford was making shopping mobile, yet not a single retailer saw what the impact of the automobile would be." Wood persuaded Rosenwald to open stores along the main highways of the nation...