Word: panza
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...carried away with visions of an electric soil floor capable of growing 25 Ibs. per sq. ft. of the ripest, reddest, most luscious tomatoes, or the old red barn complete with a nature-food restaurant and live music. Hermie clamps down hard on reality and plays down-Maine Sancho Panza to MacArthur's Don Quixote. Then MacArthur will begin to talk about solid things-like the twelve-by-twelve beams in the old red barn, all meticulously mortised-and down-to-earth ideas...
...Cervantes novel in which an innkeeper's daughter, Kitri (danced by Gelsey Kirkland), manages to marry her true love, Basil the Barber (Baryshnikov), in defiance of her father, who has a richer son-in-law in mind. The visionary Don Quixote (Alexander Minz) and his faithful Sancho Panza (Enrique Martinez) are on the periphery of the raucous doings but play no real part...
Ramsey Clark, former Attorney General, urging young people to retain their idealism: "If you have to choose between being Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, for heaven's sake...
That his ex-boss, the director of the Office of Fiscal Services, is incompetent. The director, a ten-year veteran of the Harvard campus ministry named R. Jerrold Gibson '51, is a "Sancho Panza," Brown-Beasley claims, who is not qualified to direct Fiscal Services and who cannot freely use the technical advice of his own staff on computers because of a special veto power created by Hale Champion, vice president for finances...
...archbishop of the title, whom Cather called Jean Marie Latour, was the quixotic Jean Baptiste Lamy, first Bishop of Santa Fe. His affable Sancho Panza, Joseph Vaillant in the novel, was Joseph Machebeuf, later Bishop of Denver. After decades of research, Paul Horgan, novelist and Pulitzer-prizewinning historian (Great River), has attempted to separate the fictive from the actual. His triumph is due as much to a sense of place as to discernment of character. In his account, the shimmering, arid plateaus and the indomitable Gallic spirit are as palpable as they were in the novel-and as compelling...