Word: eulalia
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...shopkeepers. Catalans, as Robert Hughes sympathetically calls them, pride themselves on their pragmatism and their independent-mindedne ss: two of their sovereign virtues are mesura and ironia. And at the heart of their idealized self-image is seny, or "a natural level-headedness." The patron saint of Barcelona, St. Eulalia, is also the patron saint of stonecutters, bricklayers and millstone makers...
...liberators, even in El Chorrillo, a burned-out section of Panama City where many were left homeless. Residents of the down-at-the-heels area were quick to assert that the fires were not caused by U.S. military action but were deliberately set by Noriega's paramilitary Dignity Battalions. Eulalia Sanchez paused while burning garbage in a vacant lot in front of her damaged El Chorrillo home to declare, "We are very happy with the gringos. They freed us from the tyranny of Noriega...
GRADY JOHNSON Santa Eulalia, Ibiza, Spain...
...cooperate with local white leaders. "Even among the apathetic students, there's a feeling that they are not going to find solutions with white people any more," says George McMillan, a white journalism teacher at Clark College. "There is more sense of blackness," agrees Spelman College Senior Eulalia Harris, a Negro, "and more desire to make the black community stronger rather than integrate...
...installed last week as coadjutor, chief troubleshooter and heir apparent of Barcelona's archbishop. Though Monsignor González is non-Catalán in a rabidly Catalán diocese, he very quickly won over his first congregation at Barcelona's Gothic Santa Eulalia Cathedral, shunning the tiresome platitudes that his audience was so accustomed to. "I promise you," Monsignor González said with feeling and warmth, "that I will learn Catalán to understand better and to be understood. I will love it-and you." It was a start...