Word: lida
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nevada." State officials are appropriately heavy-lidded as long as appropriate taxes are paid. "I can't tell you anything about prostitution in Nevada," Attorney General Harvey Dickerson told Reporter Charles Hillinger. "I personally don't interfere with it where it exists." One of the "wheres" is Lida Junction on Highway 95, about midway between Reno and Las Vegas. Lida Junction cannot be found on most road maps; it consists of an airstrip and a house trailer with a sign reading "Cottontail Ranch." It is, in fact, a community with only one visible means of support...
...sits intensely motionless. His hands, clasped in the center of the table beside the water he never stops to drink, move only rarely to say something of extreme importance. For 45 minutes there is nothing but Borges' locating the words to articulate what Professor Raimundo Lida called "his fervent and clairvoyant meditations...
Since 1953 a professor at Harvard, Lida earlier taught at the Instituto Nacional del Profesorado and the Colegio Nacional in Buenos Aires and at the University of La Plata. From 1947 to 1953 he was director of the Center of Literary Studies of the Colegio de Mexico, in Mexico City...
...Lida is internationally known for his studies of Spanish and Hispanic American Literary figures...
Born in Austria, Lida is the author of Belleza, Arte y Poesia en la Estetica de Santayana, Letras Hispanicas, and Condicion del Poeta...