Word: salamanca
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...while 2,000 students cheered. In Wellsville he solemnly accepted 50? campaign contributions from two shy Brownie scouts. In Olean he let ward bosses wait while he strode into W. T. Grant's to shake more hands and buy a nickel's worth of green taffy. In Salamanca he grabbed a baton and directed the high school band, grabbed a hula hoop and, with a flourish, tossed it around his neck...
...that is French. For part of the way the two books travel together, since both chronicle the Cortés conquest. The 16th century soldier and the 20th century scholar tell much the same story-the fantastic saga of Hernán Cortés, a vagabond student from Salamanca who became one of the most famous conquerors in history...
...doughtiest soldiers of the modern world of ideological civil war is too obscurely defined in the U.S. ken. He is-or was-Don Miguel de Unamuno, twice rector of and twice expelled from the University of Salamanca,* who brought to recent letters a Spanish taste for macabre conundrums about death: "One day we shall all die, even the dead...
...than Don Quixote's creator, Cervantes. This kind of jugglery between the balloons of fiction and the cannonballs of fact made Unamuno an enigmatic figure-and in Catholic, reactionary Spain, a suspect and controversial one. In 1891, when he was 27, he became professor of Greek at Salamanca, and was appointed rector ten years later. He stoutly rejected any obligation to impose coherence on his thought and backed up his stand by the consistent inconsistency of his life. He translated Marxist books, tilted at the windmills of Spanish society, and at the same time, in his books engaged...
...militarists, and the dictator forced him into exile in the Canary Islands. Although amnesty was granted a few months later, he exiled himself to Paris. By this time, his was the greatest literary name in the Hispanic world, and after Primo de Rivera's death, he returned to Salamanca with national acclaim. But Don Miguel was really a Don Quixote, and his Quixote's genius for glory and self-destruction led him to gibe constantly at the liberal republic, to salute the Francoist rebels in 1936, and, characteristically, to live just long enough to regret it. "He alone...