Word: cortese
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An assistant in the course, The Rev. Juan Cortes, S.J., explained that he and his colleagues paid Cambridge delinquents to come in from one to five times a week to discuss anything they chose. Cortes emphasized that he and his students tried to discourage any idea of a doctor-patient...
Art as 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...
A blood-drenched ending is inevitable. Manuel returns seven years later rich as Cortes, but Soledad, to escape a nun's life, has married. At first the village priest persuades the blighted lover to set vengeance aside, but at last Manuel forces an ending so bloody - and romantic - as...
The cultivated land is largely tied up in latifundios, the big farms that have dominated Latin American agriculture ever since the time of Conquistador Hernan Cortes, who got a royal grant of 100,000 Indians and 25,000 square miles of farmland in 1529. In Venezuela, 3% of the land...
Few major oil companies have ever drilled in Spain because of currency restrictions and a law that limited foreign participation in drilling companies to 25%. But now Spain is in desperate financial straits, needs both oil and dollars, cannot afford its own major drilling program. Last week the Spanish Cortes...