Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mythical history of Latin America. In this 800-page work, fictional characters and historical ones appear together, past, present and future mingle as Fuentes narrates the birth of the New World. The novel focuses on the beginning of Latin American history when two worlds are brought together by Columbus: that of Spain, already a battlefield of the Arabic, Jewish and Roman cultures, and that of America with its native populations. "Terra Nostra" represents knowledge through imagination--a knowledge that cannot be found in the history books...
...year in a row, Fuentes is teaching a course--Lit and Art C-41, "History and Fiction in Spanish America"--which is a condensed and restructured version of "Terra Nostra." In the course, Fuentes traces the heritage of Latin America back to the different currents of thought which followed Columbus across the Atlantic. The New World became Europe's utopia: a place where Europeans could reconstruct their world without any of its faults. But as the invading Spanish and Portuguese driven by a Maciavellian thirst for gold and power, they did not face an empty continent. The history of Latin...
...neighborhood has changed physically as well. The former Oddfellows Hall has been torn down and a Kentucky Fried Chicken now stands at the same site, the old Harvard theatre at the corner of Shay and Mass Ave. is now a bank. The large Knights of Columbus hall has been demolished and the Knights now hold their meetings in a small, rented room adjacent to their former hall...
...price? A mere $52,000. And the cruise date? October 12, 1992, the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's discovery of America...
...week Masters Beer, which is jointly produced by Coors, Canada's Molson Breweries and West Germany's Kaltenberg, went on sale. Coors brews Masters at its Golden, Colo., plant using a recipe formulated by the three partners. Initially, the beer will be available only in Boston, Miami, Washington and Columbus. Priced 25 cents higher per six-pack than American superpremium beers like Michelob, Masters is likely to be a brew for an upscale restaurant rather than a neighborhood tavern...