Word: continente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From William Morris until the dictators, he holds everything. The England which gave him little recognition until he was known on the Continent and in America-which for years he refused to visit-has dropped him again; even the revolutions of the last 30 years have been made by war...
The new continent was one of "surprise, shock, triviality, and grandeur," and it required a new language. The American classicists, said Wilder, found this new language by inventing an American "grand style."
Early settlers chose the American continent and "burned their boats behind them," Wilder said. Out of their independence grew the writings of Thoreau, Melville, Poe, and Emily Dickenson, which expressed a "totally new view of the human situation."
"Philippine 'bankruptcy and corruption' have an intimate relation to the American example in racketeering and to the insidious inspiration provided by conspicuous consumption, otherwise known as the so-called American standard of living . . . [but] the Filipinos are mere pikers compared to their more accomplished and eminently successful mentors...
"Naturally," explained El Tiempo with a sly dig at Colombian President Laureano Gómez, "all this has nothing to do with us here in Colombia. But this kind of hagiolatry might spread the length and breadth of the continent with the appearance of further saints of this type. Perhaps...