Word: santiagos
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...apart from academic atelier practice, and it fitted perfectly into the general move among artists at the end of the 19th century to refresh art from hitherto unused sources. One of the first artists to imagine a link between iron forging and formal sculpture was a minor Spanish painter, Santiago Rusinyol, an impassioned collector of the ironwork in which the smiths of his native Barcelona had always excelled. "I think of those forges of old Barcelona," he wrote in 1893, "where instinct was set free. There, in the darkness . . . I think I see springing from the fire an art without...
...Harvard team faced Cornell without their best player- Santiago Sanchez- Elia, a visiting student affiliated with Eliot House. Sanchez- Elia had to return to Harvard to take the TOEFL...
When the window shattered, "Someone screamed, then more people screamed. People got out of their chairs and started running around," said Livia M. Santiago...
...that is not enough. He dreams of a house overlooking the bay in his native Santiago de Cuba. He dreams of converting the island back to capitalism. And he dreams of becoming its first democratically elected President when Castro is gone. "I have a right to dream of a model republic for Cuba," he says. "If I'm criticized for that, fine. But the Cuban people themselves think the foundation is the logical option after Castro. We have practically won, and Fidel has lost...
...debate over the legislation has reawakened doubts about Mas' own methods and motives. Born in Santiago to a Cuban army veterinarian, he was arrested as a teenager in the 1950s for denouncing dictator Fulgencio Batista on the radio. He fled to Miami in 1960, fearing he would be arrested again, this time for openly defying Castro. He worked as a dishwasher, shoe salesman and milkman in Little Havana while editing an anti-Castro paper funded by Jose Bosch, the Bacardi rum magnate. Mas signed on with the aborted 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion and once tried to outfit...