Word: hispanist
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...Since I am an Hispanist (I have been so called by the Spanish daily, La Prensa, for my activities as a sympathizer and well-wisher of the Spanish-speaking nations of the world), any article relating to Spanish-speaking peoples interests me particularly and it is one of my hobbies to correct any erroneous conceptions formed of the aforesaid peoples and their countries. If Mr. Bleecker will observe more closely my letter, he will notice that I attached more importance to explaining about the Basque country than I did to Paolino's nationality. This statement answers, I trust, the question...
...erally saves Kitaj's work from this failing is his visual flair and range of notation. He has a virtuoso's fist, and can with equal conviction parody the cartoony style of a '40s detective-novel cover or produce the near life-size portrait, The Hispanist, 1977-78, a nervous, delicate laying-on of paint, Klimt-like in its dandified preci on. One always feels that what is there is fully meant to be there...
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