Word: lopes
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Ever since Robert Maynard Hutchins became president of big University of Chicago in 1929, he has enjoyed himself tremendously. He reduced the term of Chicago's undergraduate course from four years to whatever length of time a clever student might need to lope through it, ignored critics outside the University, passionately upheld the banner of academic freedom. Many a Chicago teacher, however, has been disconcerted by "Bob" Hutchins' exuberance, his insistence that colleges should present their students with "clear and distinct ideas...
...exercises for mortifying the flesh, but only made himself ill without ecstasy. Bringing his imagination more sharply into focus, he peered through the popular novels of that spectacular moment of Spanish history in order to visualize the dusty, hungry, breakneck life of the common people. The amazing fertility of Lope de Vega, who wrote 2,200 plays, the cool, sinister elegance of El Greco, the salty, practical fervor of Saint Teresa gave Author Maugham a hint of the stormy intellectual and artistic climate in which his projected characters would live...
...Lope de Vega was acutely conscious of his honor, but when crossed in love revenged himself by writing scurrilous verses about his mistress' family. He wrote 20 pages a day and composed more than 200 full-length comedies in 24 hours each. Getting 50 ducats a play, he was the only professional writer among Spain's great. "When the younger generation came knocking at the door he firmly put his foot against it." Saint Teresa was a great saint but she was also a handsome woman who cried out when she saw her portrait: "God forgive...
...regular habits. "All his work was in disorder, just like his life. He wrote his pages in fits and starts, and then left them alone for months at a time." He had a high opinion of his own ability, which was not shared by his great rival, Playwright-Poet Lope de Vega. Biographer Tomas thinks Lope de Vega was responsible for the pirated parody of Don Quixote which was published before Cervantes' own conclusion...
...pushed their new models into the shadow of the council rock that is the annual National Automobile Show. And with just as much eager pride as Kipling's she-wolves, the motormakers awaited the judgment of the buying public. If their models were accepted, they would lope happily in the annual spring running, which everyone expected would be the swiftest in three years. If their models were rejected, they would find the hunting lean...