Word: mancha
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this pageantry may be picturesque for the tourist, but it will not solve Spain's economic ills. The land of the Knight from La Mancha has not progressed much since...
...INGENIOUS GENTLEMAN DON QUIXOTE DE LA MANCHA (1,043 pp.)-By Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra; translated by Samuel Putnam-Viking...
THIS IS DON QUIXOTE DE LA MANCHA. He is pummeled by his squire, and at last dumped off his horse in a put-up tourney and forced under oath to give up his quest. Beaten, Alonso Quijana admits that Don Quixote was mad. "In last year's nests there are no birds this year," he says, and dies of a broken spirit...
...creator of "the ingenious knight of La Mancha" was ingenious enough to give his guards a good deal of trouble. After one of Cervantes' daring attempts to escape, the Turkish commander remarked: "So long as I have the maimed Spaniard secure, my slaves and my ships, nay the whole city will be safe." But when Cervantes finally got back to Spain, he found nothing but poverty and idleness. He had a wife, a mistress, and an illegitimate child to support. Says Biographer Bell: "We may suspect that his life at Madrid at this time was not unlike that...