Word: brenan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spite of Michener's long-windedness, no single book since V. S. Pritchett's The Spanish Temper and Gerald Brenan's The Face of Spain has succeeded so well in embracing the country's history and culture, its natural and architectural milieu, and the quality of the Spanish character-which Michener sums up in one evocative word, duende, meaning "mysterious and ineffable charm." All the immemorial sights are here too: the revelry following the feria at Seville, the impact of the roomful of Velázquez paintings at the Prado, the soaring, glowing Gothic church...
Despite the committee's apparent fable action, John J. Brenan, a opponent of the NASA laboratory, he was "enchanted with the vote". closeness of the ballot indicated pread opposition to the project. aid indicating, that there would be attempt in Congress to kill...
...Life of One's Own, by Gerald Brenan. A sharp-eyed and superbly honest autobiography of a 69-year-old Englishman who, at 25, opted out of civilization to pursue a hermit's vocation...
...Life of One's Own, by Gerald Brenan. A sharp-eyed and superbly honest autobiography by a 69-year-old Englishman who at 25 opted out of civilization to pursue a hermit's vocation...
...World. But Paris looked at him with an indifference to match his own, and (less conspicuously dressed) he took off for points east with a donkey and a rather nutty companion who was a much more usual type of rebel, a romantic poseur who was doing what Brenan was incapable of-making a gesture. Of course, the romantic cracked first. Brenan trudged on alone (barefoot through snow when his boots gave out in the Balkans) and only turned back when it dawned on him that he was not enjoying himself...