Word: conquistador
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...light in what turns out to be a sensitive, almost unearthly love of brother for sister. Their rapturous relationship was doomed; the sister has been killed by the cruder man whom she married but to whom she had never given herself. At the trial of truth, the boy, his Conquistador parents, and the husband declare themselves before a quiet, frozen chorus of townspeople, baring themselves in extraordinary speeches that are nearly soliloquies...
...Latin way." The attention of Peru, and of Venezuela's Pérez Jiménez and other interested bystanders, now centers on the manner of the change, and the man whom Odria will choose to sit in the carved presidential armchair once used by Peru's Conquistador Francisco Pizarro...
...Lieut. James W. McDonald, a West Pointer from Huntington, N.Y., tough jung'e training of combat teams from the Canal Zone's 33rd Infantry Regiment was the basic mission for both expeditions: choosing historical routes was an interest-arousing flourish. But playing the role of a conquistador caught McDonald's imagination: for Operation Balboa he briefed himself carefully under Balboa Expert Juan Rubio of the University of Panama. Then he followed the most authoritative route over the isthmus' north-coast range, down a remote river and across the densely jungled central plain. At length he faced...
...long, fierce road to the golden halls of Montezuma, Cortés relies on her as his eyes, ears and translating tongue. Faithful Marina also bears Cortés a son. Yet Novelist Baron never allows her to blot out the challenging figure of the great conquistador. His Cortés is a hypnotic leader who can inspire lukewarm, greedy fighters to swashbuckle down to their job. Exploring the inner man as well, Author Baron describes Cortés as a Byron turning Napoleonic, as a would-be servant of God becoming the Devil's disciple, slaughtering some...
BRIDE OF THE CONQUEROR, by Hartzell Spence (336 pp.; Random House;$3.95). When rich, beautiful Doña Eloisa Marta Maria del Cristofora Leovigilda Canillejas arrives in the New World, every Conquistador bachelor in Peru is waiting and many a married gallant is ready to murder his wife to possess her. Pizarro, the villainous governor, gazes down her bodice as she curtsies to him and his kisses are "like hot irons." But Dona Eloisa side steps. In the end, Pizarro mounts the scaffold and Dona Eloisa gets the man she really loves...