Word: sancho
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...obviously been great-almost as great as that of all those books about knighthood on poor Don Quixote. The re-enactment of the Inn scene is first class: Don Quixote de Gaulle, encountering the Kremlin's "Bed and Breakfast plus Extras" sign, surely exclaims to his faithful servant, Sancho Couve de Murville, over the wondrous castle before them, and says that surely De Gaulle must receive tributes from the lord of the castle, and in turn pay homage to the beautiful lady therein...
...singing voice is far better. He handles himself with grace and gallantry despite some crippling vulgarities in the Dale Wasserman script. Considering the pitch of her voice and the plunge of her neckline, Joan Diener is less an auditory than a visual treat. Irving Jacobson's Yiddish-accent Sancho Panza presents another problem...
Kazantzakis often follows his descriptive and narrative passages with philosophical analyses. In fact, he be gins his journal with "Spain has two faces. Its one profile, the elongated fiery visage of the Knight of the Woeful Countenance; and its other, the practical, square head of Sancho." Kazantzakis develops this view of the Spanish national character throughout the book; for instance, he writes that Saint Theresa "fruitfully and perfectly fused within herself Don Quixote and Sancho," and calls Unanumo's humor "sanchoesque...
...Author Stephen Potter (Gamesmanship], McGill's cards brought back "memories of bathing tents and sand in gym shoes and tea at a beach café." To the late George Orwell, they meant something vastly different: a splashy, tintype, but nonetheless authentic expression of ''the Sancho Panza view of life." Like Don Quixote's earthy squire, McGill "punctures your fine attitudes and urges you to look after number one," wrote Orwell in the '40s. "The other element in man the lazy, cowardly, debt-bilking adulterer who is inside all of us, can never be suppressed altogether...
Walt Disney (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Part 2 of "Sancho, the Homing Steer" tells the exploits of a Texas longhorn that left a cattle drive to travel 1,200 miles back home on its own. Color...