Word: francisca
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Francisca M. Geyer '01 agreed, adding, "I can't see that this was done intentionally, although I could see how people would be upset." Homer said she believes that students should find comfort in the length of the list...
Kathryn Harrison's new novel (Random House; 317 pages; $23) about the Spanish Inquisition is, according to TIME critic John Skow, "very good, and a complete surprise." The story follows the separate torments of two women caught in their society's lunacy. Francisca, a young woman in love with a priest, is found out and routinely and grotesquely tortured; Maria, the new bride of the Spanish king, is tortured in a different way by the couple's inability to produce an heir. Skow notes that although the parallel tales of the two women are a bit awkward, the novel...
...Francisca James Hernandez, a graduatestudent and spokesperson for the protectors, toldthe Stanford Daily, "I hear a lot of words andthen I see actions that are entirely contrary...