Word: conquistador
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...contends, was no different than that of the early English, Dutch, and French in North America. The conqueror who came to North America was, in fact, quickly disappointed. The Indian he found was poor, prone to disease, and generally unexploitable. Timber and fish hardly promised to make him a conquistador. He had no choice but to settle and make the best of what he had. South America, on the other hand, gave much to the conqueror. Taking gold and silver from the hills and sugar from the plains, he could intoxicate himself on pure profit. To aid his enterprise...
...Poodles in Shorts. But no more so than her life offscreen. Born of a French father ("He's distantly related to Bach," says her pressagent) and Mexican mother ("a descendant of a conquistador'') in Hollywood, Yvette attended Catholic schools, studied for a year in Mexico City before settling down at Hollywood High School. She didn't get very far. For once upon a summer day, while horseback riding through the Hollywood Hills, she was startled to see a helicopter swoop down from the sky. Out stepped Pressagent Jim Byron ("that's spelled BYRON...
Outside San Juan are hotels for people less likely to panic when out of earshot of a calypso singer or a steel band. El Conquistador, now in its first season, perches atop a cliff on the northeastern tip of the island, uses an aerial tramway to ferry guests to and from the white-sand beach below. Villa Parguera, on the southwest shore, specializes in deep-sea fishing; El Barranquitas in the mountainous interior has a spectacular view and an excellent cuisine. Puerto Rico's finest hotel is the Dorado Beach, 20 miles west of San Juan, built by Laurance...
...MacLeish offered eight public lectures as part of his Humanities course before a packed crowd in Sanders Theatre. His recent book, Poetry and Experience, repeated the lectures, which came just after the success on Broadway of his verse play J. B. The play won MacLeish his third Pulitzer Prize. Conquistador in 1932 gave him his first Pulitzer, and Collected Poems, 1917-1952 received a Pulitzer, the Bolligen Prize, and the National Book Award...
...Religion. At 68, having ranged in his own poetry from a swashbuckling, 2,000-line epic of Cortes in Conquistador to the modern morality play in J.B., MacLeish himself is tempted to an omnibus generalization on poetry: "'What is the meaning of all song?' Yeats asks himself, and answers, 'Let all things pass away.' " The implicit proviso is "except this poem," and MacLeish goes on to say: "To face the truth of the passing away of the world and make song of it, make beauty of it, is not to solve the riddle of our mortal...