Word: riveras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twice in the last century - 1834-39 and 1871-86 - Spain was rocked by the Carlist civil wars. During the 1920s she suffered several general strikes, a seemingly interminable Moroccan War, an ironclad, royally inspired dictatorship under Primo de Rivera. In 1931, she ousted her King, adopted a modern, republican constitution. In 1932, General Sanjurjo led a shortlived Monarchist revolt in Seville. In 1934, Left extremists staged an equally abortive but longer armed rebellion in Asturias. Interested though it was, Europe left Spain's domestic convulsions strictly to Spain...
...student, a Lowell House Junior, received through the mall an extortion note accompanied by a picture of a disrobed female reposing on a bench. "Remember the Rivera or was it Revere?" was the salutation of the letter. The text of the missive was brief--"Five thousand dollars . . . . OR ELSE." The signature was simply "Bev, the clutch," a name feared by the student to be that of a notorious Harvard Square and Huntington Avenue blackmailer...
About all the painting most strictly modern architects want in their buildings can be done by a house painter. This fact greatly grieves the young school of muralists who have found their inspiration in Rivera and Orozco, their opportunity under WPA. Lately, however, a few architects and a few painters have had a happy, conciliatory thought. If modern architecture relies on the beauty of abstract forms, why should it not employ, for certain chaste effects, the painting of pure abstractionists...
...course, is well run, easy if one has had French, and adequate. Spanish 7 is the continuing composition course, lasts a half year. It is monotonous and now and then repents course 1, but is valuable for further Spanish courses. In Spanish 8, a second half year course, Professor Rivera has produced a course in which each student is forced to learn to talk, and which is at the same time interesting. Students subscribe to La Prensa, a New York Spanish newspaper, and discuss articles of current interest...
...could almost stand being a full course. Professor Ford gives both this and number 2 on the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and Cervantes. The defect of the other Spanish literature courses is that there is too much emphasis on the mechanics of translation. Whittem, and to a lesser degree Rivera, are both at their best on composition and tend to neglect the literary aspect of their material...