Word: dionisio
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the Spanish government takes time out to speak to the Opposition it calls on Dionisio Ridruejo. Yet, Ridruejo's speech at Harvard last week in Boylston Hall was his first public address in over three years. He remains one of the few men barred from speaking publicly in Franco's Spain, and since 1955 his name has not appeared in print in that country...
Amidst this Spain, however, some true Spaniards remain, and Dionisio Ridruejo is perhaps an archetypical example. He is a professor at the University of Madrid, when it is open, and he is a genuine teacher. He is also a writer, a humanist and human, with brilliant eyes and fine hands with which he speaks. And he loves Spain and knows her as almost no other individual does. But this knowledge only makes him more acutely aware of the tensions and contradictions that exist within present-day Spain to be resolved only upon Franco's death...
Perhaps this is because the contradiction of Dionisio Ridruejo's life are the contradictions of twentieth century Spain. And if Dionisio Ridruejo is not yet Spain, there is hope that Spain may come to be Dionisio Ridruejo, and in so doing resolve its own contradictions much as he has resolved his. Dionisio Ridruejo is today, in his own words, "a free...
...Spain is, I must answer, 'Spain is not well,'" Dionisio Redrejo, a leader of the opposition to Franco, said last night in Boylston Hall...
...left, are outfits like the Popular Liberation Front, whose Marxist leader has been in jail since 1959. Roughly in the political center are: 1) the Christian Democrats, led by Jose Maria Gil Robles, 63, a prominent Madrid lawyer, and 2) the Liberals, whose spokesman has been Dionisio Ridruejo, a onetime Falangist who has been in the opposition for years...