Word: medievales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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"Equilibrium is not the same as health . . . The Spanish economy is in equilibrium, like the Italian economy, like that of Abyssinia . . . Most Frenchmen eat, bathe and warm themselves fairly well in the winter. But little by little, faster and faster, one sees the conditions in which they live becoming medieval...
Little's literary violence often provokes equally violent reactions from readers. Last week Little joyously printed a letter denouncing him as an "ignorant, crazy imbecile" who should be confined to publishing his opinions "on a scratch pad." The stimulant for this intemperate comment was Little's latest, longest...
Behind the forbidding stone walls of Jerusalem's Mea Shearim quarter, hundreds of bearded, ultra-Orthodox scholars study the Torah from morning to night, and wear the fur-trimmed black hats, ankle-length gaberdines and dangling ear-locks of the medieval ghettos. On the Sabbath, the more violent among...
His poem of hate to the "Remote and ineffectual Don that dared attack my Chesterton" is in the anthologies. Together Belloc and Chesterton created the modern legend of a medieval England vigorous in its earthy Christianity, bluff country squires, boon companions, Catholic piety and roistering taverns. Sang Belloc:
With a sound sense of drama, the festival managers arranged to have all performances held in the patios of the Alhambra. Afternoon events began in daylight and ended in evening shadows; after dark, discreetly situated floodlights illumined the cypresses and medieval arches.