Word: mediterraneanize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That was when the Moors governed Spain and, like Moslems elsewhere, made no religious, cultural or economic discriminations against Jews. While the Ashkenazic (German) Jews of northern and eastern Europe were scuttling from one oppressive country to another. Sephardic (Spanish) Jews were looming in the Mediterranean basin as leaders in medicine (Isaac Israeli), philosophy (Maimonides), government, and in commerce. When Christians drove the Moors from Spain and devout Ferdinand and Isabella expelled the Jews bag without baggage (1492), Sephardic Jewry declined. Some of the Spanish Jews migrated to the Netherlands. Spinoza was a Sephardic Jew. A Lisbon-born Sephardi...
HOTEL UNIVERSE?Sore-troubled expatriates on a terrace overlooking the Mediterranean...
...refers ecstatically to food "as luscious as locusts." Last week in the French and Spanish colonies in Africa, where the locust swarms were a nuisance but not a plague, hungry natives ate their fill, played games with the hoppers, bet on their hops. Tourists from the U. S. on Mediterranean cruises took a different view, grew vexed and grumpy as the hoppers hopped into their berths, baths, soups. In Greece and Rumania the sudden arrival of the locusts was said to have caused "panics" in the smaller villages. At Athens and Bucharest the respective ministers of agriculture organized bands...
...Cette (small Mediterranean port) soccer team: the French Association football cup, having defeated the Racing Club of Paris 3-to-1 before a crowd...
...Lily Malone and Phyllis Povah as Hope Ames, managed to master its extraordinary moods with the customary skill of Guild performers. The only completely successful detail of Hotel Universe is the setting, by Lee Simonson, of a terrace touched by the light of a July evening on the Mediterranean, a pavilion for illusion and despair...