Word: galicia
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...tutor. The child cannot prevent himself from telling the dreadful secret to his father. The narrator, who was the boy, relates his turmoil in a way that seems resigned and detached, and then adds two sentences that haunt the mind with the littleness of private tragedy: "This was in Galicia in the year 1910. All of it was to be destroyed anyway, even without...
Throughout his travelogue, Richler illuminates general truths with local anecdotes. A grieving memoir reveals the dark side of the immigrant experience and the author's love for his father: the lifelong failure who "came to Montreal as an in fant, his father fleeing Galicia. Pogroms. Rampaging Cossacks. But, striptease shows aside, the only theater my father relished, an annual outing for the two of us, was the appearance of the Don Cossack Choir at the St. Denis Theater. My father would stamp his feet to their lusty marching and drinking songs; his eyes would light up to see those...
...seems the quintessential Argentine. Born in the provincial city of Chascomus (pop. 30,000), 78 miles southeast of Buenos Aires, Alfonsin was the oldest of five children. His parents made a comfortable living running a general store founded by his great-grandfather, who emigrated from the Spanish province of Galicia in 1870. His father, Serafin, was a fervent supporter of the Republican cause in the Spanish Civil War, and that sense of commitment seemed to rub off on his son. Says Alfonsin: "I came from a home atmosphere where liberty was not only learned from books...
...first sign came from the northern provincial capital of Huesca, a traditionally conservative area, where the early returns showed the Socialists well ahead. Next came coastal Pontevedra, a longtime franquista stronghold in Galicia, which the Socialists came surprisingly close to carrying. Then the southern province of Alrneria, another conservative bastion, fell to the Socialists. Finally the rose-colored tide rolled across the plains of Old Castile...
...become a folk hero to Spanish rightists. Hundreds of people visited him in the military prison at Alcalá de Henares, northeast of Madrid, forming long lines to pay their respects. The government finally moved him last week to El Ferrol in the distant northwestern region of Galicia, but the streams of admiring callers continued. Indeed, so popular has Tejero become that he is reportedly thinking of running for parliament, even from jail...