Word: madariaga
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Spanish-born Historian and Philosopher Salvador de Madariaga, who has written extensively about the voyages of Columbus, addressed himself at TIME'S request to the deeper meaning of explorations, past and present...
...master the unknown by finding out what the valley next to his was like, until today, when the unknown is the solar system, man has had to conquer the fear of the dangers which the unknown conceals not only as they are but as he fancies them," writes De Madariaga. "The companions of Bartholomeu Diaz had to conquer the fear that the ocean at and beyond the equator might boil or drop into a cosmic precipice; the companions of Columbus feared griffins, sirens, men with tails or with their heads screwed to their navels. Our astronauts' imagination is more...
...Salvador de Madariaga...
...Leader. Following the maxim of the late executive editor Samuel M. ("Sol") Levitas, "Don't expect to profit from the truth," Kolatch tries to pay younger contributors $25 to $50 an article, but he can still count on snagging the likes of exiled Spanish Philosopher Salvador de Madariaga, Economist Adolf A. Berle and Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr for nothing...
...Cops Move In. In any other Western country, the demands of the resolution proposed by Madariaga and the other Spaniards at Munich would have seemed innocuous enough. But they were dynamite in Spain: the establishment of democratic institutions based on the consent of Spain's citizens, the right of workers to strike, the free organization of political parties, including an opposition. The Spaniards' resolution chose evolution over revolution, spoke out specifically for peaceful change. "The immense majority of the Spanish people hope that this evolution can take place according to the rules of political prudence and as rapidly...