Word: salamanca
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Reason Kills. Unamuno finally won an appointment to the University of Salamanca, where a faithful band of students doted on him. "My one desire," he told them, "is not to give you ideas of my own or of others; ideas have little value-but to strike the untouched chords in the psalters of your hearts." But he struck others where it hurt, since he believed that people thought best when they were angriest. Addressing the clergy, he praised heretics. Speaking to Communists, he ostentatiously crossed himself, shouting "Christ be praised!" He challenged all parties and creeds and was never worried...
...witness such recent novels as: Captain Newman, M.D., by Leo Rosten, Faces in the Water, by Janet Frame, and Lilith, by J. R. Salamanca...
...most famous portrait of the Duke of Wellington was painted by a foreigner -Spanish fellow by the name of Goya-and caught the duke just as he looked the day after his victory at Salamanca in 1812. Britain thus regards the portrait as a national treasure. When U.S. Oilman Charles B. Wrightsman bought the Duke of Wellington at auction (TIME. June 23). Britain-firsters of all kinds raised pained howls of protest. Collector Wrightsman thereupon offered to sell it to London's National Gallery at cost-the $392,000 that he had paid for it. Last week. Chancellor...