Word: compostela
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...furnish the stage on which his strange cast converge, Stone takes his cue from Joseph Conrad, who set Nostromo in an imaginary South American republic called Costa-guana. Stone squeezes Tecan and its more progressive neighbor Compostela into a fictional space between Nicaragua and Costa Rica, and then provides topography and politics. The land here is racked periodically by earthquakes; when Holliwell arrives in Tecan, he senses the tremors of revolution as well. The local dictator, propped up by U.S. support and sadistic National Guardsmen wearing reflecting sunglasses, may have finally pushed his brutalized subjects too far. He is driving...
From the llth century through the Middle Ages, European pilgrims worked their weary way to the tomb of the supposed apostle James in the northwestern Spanish city of Santiago de Compostela. In Spain, the path of St. James is a synonym for the Milky Way. Now, in the 20th century, two weary mendicants dodge cars and trucks as they retrace the ancient route...
...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 at León, the splendor of the cathedral at Santiago de Compostela. Michener's Tales of the South Pacific, The Source, and Hawaii brought him deserved standing as a competent if often heavy-footed popular novelist. His Iberia proves him a better Baedeker...
...cause of European unity, the exhibition includes works from nearly every European country this side of the Iron Curtain. The treasures were so many that Spain divided them between the Palace of Montjuich in Barcelona and its own proudest Romanesque monument, the great Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela...
Professor Conant will lecture on his subject at the University of Paris. He will make special reference to the Romanesque monuments at Monte Cassino, Citeaux, and Cluny and Santiago de Compostela, where he has made original research...