Word: ronda
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same program, John McLean will direct two scenes from Schnitzler's "La Ronda," Performances are scheduled for Saturday at 3 p.m. and Sunday at 3, 7, and 9 p.m. Admission is free to all performances...
...tried to put a political question to him. He is an exhilarating talker in English, and probably in the five other languages he speaks as well." When Artist Henry Koerner painted Don Juan earlier in Portugal, he was dressed more formally in the uniform of the Maestranza de Ronda, an honorary Spanish military order which he has headed since he was a young...
...time without social stigma. Children remain with their mother and are accepted by the new husband in case of separation and remarriage. Two "trials" seem to be the maximum, and eighty per cent of the couples get married in the Church at the end of their first. A yearly ronda, or roundup, keeps the ancient system working smoothly. The alcades, traditional religious leaders of the community, stage midnight raids on all houses and cornfields where they suspect that unmarried couples are sleeping. These couples are apprehended and married, by force if necessary, the following Sunday in a mass Church ceremony...
...thought, 'Holy mackerel, these people really like me.' Then, when you take a fall, you can see who your real friends are." After the Johansson fight, Patterson shut himself off from his friends and from the press for weeks. Then, last September, he rented the La Ronda nightclub in Newtown, Conn, and started training again. He has been at it ever since...
...Ronda, Patterson's life is monas tic. Says his trainer, Dan Florio: "Even his wife can't go upstairs to his room." In his tiny, pink-walled room, equipped only with necessary furniture, a crucifix and a certificate naming him an honorary Fairfield County deputy sheriff, Patterson gets up at 6 a.m. He puts on khaki pants a leather jacket, paratrooper boots and a cream-colored cap, runs from three to five miles before breakfast. He chops wood, skips rope, works for hours on the bags. In the dance-floor ring, he takes out his frustrations...