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Garcia Lorca also had ambitions to preform and revitalize the Spanish dramatic tradition. Unfortunately, the themes that his lyrical dramatic works treated--questioning the structures of patriarchy, religious authority, sexuality and social convention--were considered too subversive by the national authorities, the Fascist government of Francisco Franco. In August of 1936, Garcia Lorca was dragged into a field and murdered by Franco's agents, his body dumped into an unmarked grave...

Author: By Y. SUSANNAH R. mandel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dark, Small Magic in a Quiet Space | 11/14/1997 | See Source »

...domestic equity portion of the endowment did out-preform the Standard and Poor's 500 stock index, which had a 9.7 percent return, versus the index's gain of slightly more than 25 percent...

Author: By Jonathan N. Axelrod, | Title: Endowment's Growth Rising But Middling | 9/20/1995 | See Source »

...January we'll see what we are really made of," Masland said. "Today's wins were just part of the progression to the big matches later in the year. We need to preform well now to get a foundation to go back to the Nationals...

Author: By Daniel E. Kosowsky, | Title: Racquetmen Dominate Pair | 12/6/1990 | See Source »

Kyle Dodson rounds out the starting five. A player with excellent athletic ability, the 6-ft., 4-in. forward has yet to preform well consistently. Against Vermont, he was 0-for-9 from the floor...

Author: By Jessica Dorman and Jonathan Putnam, S | Title: 1985-86 Harvard Men's Basketball | 12/4/1985 | See Source »

...years the West Coast had to be content with stale news from tapes that were hours old. Now CNN delivers news with old-fashioned objective reporting. It makes no attempt to preform viewers' opinions, as the networks do. It permits us to form our own. This may be the greatest contribution that could be made to the electronic news industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 30, 1982 | 8/30/1982 | See Source »

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