Word: spain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Catholics and Jews, as Father Davis sees it, are involved in human history through centuries of what he calls "coexistence" in Spain, back to the Dark Ages, the Roman arenas, "and on to Abraham." And in the modern world both share many common characteristics: dietary rules, a sense of the sacredness of ritual and the transcendence of God, respect for learning and human reason. Both have been discriminated against and, "in some circles, are still regarded as aliens...
...Shakespeare Festival is controversial with a vengeance, for co-directors John Houseman and Jack Landau have changed Shakespeare's old Sicilian locale to 19th-century Spanish-American Texas. (This is not a wholly new idea, for the Brattle Theatre production here two summers ago was laid in 19th-century Spain.) Rouben Ter-Arutunian has designed a handsome and versatile two-level residencia as well as a dazzling batch of costumes liberally provided with holsters and pistols. And Virgil Thomson has written some colorful incidental music, partly original and partly borrowed (e.g. "The Mexican Hat Dance...
...tenth successive alltime monthly high. This took the dollar down to 95? worth of a March 1956 dollar, 50? worth of a pre-World War II dollar. Down, too, during the past 16 months were the currencies of Britain, Italy, Sweden, Belgium, Australia and Japan (about 5%), India (10%), Spain (11%), Argentina (16%), Brazil (27%) and Chile...
Peddling his yarn like an oldtime pitchman, Marinotti personally established new markets in India, South Korea and Russia (where his ability to outdrink the Russians proved a great advantage). To get around customs barriers, he set up subsidiaries in Spain, France, South Africa, Mexico, Argentina and Brazil. To cut rising costs, Snia Viscosa spent more than $30 million on new plants, pushed production of its own raw materials, power and machinery. Marinotti expanded the company's experimental research center, put 400 technicians to developing a full line of artificial fibers to compete on world markets...
...united and ruled Spain at the time of Columbus...