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Word: spain (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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These farces come from Renaissance Spain, medieval France, and seventeenth century Denmark. This is almost enough to restore one's faith in the doctrine of progress: nearly everything good about the occasion is supplied by Eliot House, which is, after all, more or less of a twentieth century institution. Since, on top of everything else, the translations tend towards the unspeakable, it was actors and directors vs. plays all evening. I scored it a loss, a draw...

Author: By Julius Novick, | Title: Three Farces | 2/27/1959 | See Source »

...spread commotion merely by traveling abroad-from Pocahontas to Henry James's Daisy Miller-must now be added the name of Catherine Fremantle. Strong-souled and sturdily uppered, she is the daughter and soul support of the suet-brained information officer at a U.S. Air Force base in Spain. The trouble is that Catherine's old man has messed things up. To the natives, if a .fish floats dead in the river, it is because the yanquis have irradiated the water supply. If a badly timed flight of B-525 interrupts a bullfight with a moment of swoosh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Cain in Spai | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

When Catherine is invited to spend a few weeks with a Spanish family, she sees a chance to repair all kinds of relations. Vitamin-packed but starved for iniquity -as far as Air Force gallants go, the Cain in Spain is mainly on the wane-Catherine sets the Spaniards to smoldering. Before long she is exchanging sweet nadas with the very Iberian who has been spreading all the calumnies-a handsome, aristocratic, intelligent, artistic, musically talented blackguard of a bullfighter. He hates the U.S. because it is burying his country's fine old traditions under a mulch of Coca...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Cain in Spai | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

...year, a miniscule proportion of a present-day American budget. President Eisenhower's indifference to this very real problem reflects an unwarranted satisfaction with a policy that allows men without diplomatic experience and--in some cases--familiarity with the country and language, to serve as Ambassadors to Italy, France, Spain and Great Britain--to name just...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dollars for Diplomacy | 2/20/1959 | See Source »

Johns Hopkins File 7 (ABC, 11:30 a.m.-12 noon). Veteran Editor Walter Millis, backed up by charts and photographs, remembers the Maine and the U.S.'s 1898 war with Spain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Time Listings, Feb. 16, 1959 | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

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