Word: cortese
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Tthe Prime Minister-designate, a tall and dour man, had little cheer to offer his fellow politicians. Spain's young democracy was entering a perilous new era, he warned. Spaniards were disenchanted and pessimistic, the economic situation was "bitter and hard." In those gloomy terms, Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo, 54...
It was a prudent but far from memorable beginning for Calvo-Sotelo. A successful engineer-businessman from one of Spain's most prominent political families -the assassination of an uncle in 1936 helped spark the Spanish Civil War-he was most recently Suárez's deputy prime...
That California has come to embody such a vision of boundlessness is a little strange, since the dream of California is as much the dream of disappointment as of hope?the dream of arriving at virgin territory, of messing it up, and having gone as far as one can go...
"For two hours a week, which many students think they could use better on their own, one student presents his thesis on a topic most students know nothing about and then the professor asks him questions, while the other students are left out," Joseph Z. Cortes '81, an Economics concentrator...
"We are in the wildest country and among the wildest people we have ever seen," wrote one of Conquistador Hernan Cortes' commanders about Guatemala in 1524. It was only the first of many unflattering stereotypes of Central America. In the U.S. in the 1850s, the heyday of Manifest Destiny...