Word: salamanca
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Knees Among the Stones. On a grey, cold morning in Spain last week, Padre Carlos Gonzalez Salas rose early in Madrid, where he had come from his philosophy studies at Salamanca's Universidad Pontifica. After Mass and breakfast, he climbed into a borrowed car and set out with his cousin and another priest for Cerro de Los Angeles, eight miles south of the city. This rugged hill is the exact geographical center of Spain. On its top once stood a huge monument, topped by a statue of Christ, which Communists dynamited during the civil war; since then, a smaller...
...Caracas bullfighting family. A promising baseball player in high school, Girón faced his first bull when, at 15, he jumped into the Caracas bull ring during a fight and gave the fans a laugh and a thrill. Last week, in the famed old bull ring of Salamanca, Girón got the highest honors a delirious crowd could bestow...
Last week, just before Salamanca's celebration was to begin, a pamphlet appeared in the streets called "Miguel de Unamuno: Greatest Heretic and Teacher of Heresy!" Among other things, it quoted Antonio Pildáin y Zapiáin, Bishop of the Canary Islands, who attacked the philosopher as an "enemy of the religious faith common to all Spaniards." It also quoted a 1942 decree in which the then Bishop of Salamanca listed the books of Unamuno that were on the Index. In a sudden panic, the university changed the name of the Unamuno house, which...
Live Forever. The visitors came from universities all over the world. There was Oxford's red, Hamburg's blue, Padua's ermine, the Sorbonne's yellow, white tie and tails from Harvard and Princeton. In the face of such a gathering, Salamanca should have been pleased-except for the irrepressible ghost of Miguel de Unamuno...
...Bishop of Salamanca frowned and lowered his head. But the cheers burst out, and for long moments applause thundered through the hall. Don Miguel had had his day, after...