Word: spain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Never having been outside Spain before and not knowing a word of English, the young poet was swirled down into big city life at the height of the Bull Market days. And he reacted to the city in such an elemental way that the poetry which resulted--discordant, night-marish, nearly surrealistic--was utterly unlike anything he had written before. In fact, Lorca's Poet in New York was so different from his early Canciones or the gypsy ballads in Romancero Gitano that many scholars try to consider it outside and unrelated to the course of the poet's stylistic...
Hynek heads a staff of 25 scientists and administrative personnel who have been assigned to the tracking program headquarters here. The staff is directing and planning the construction of 12 stations in the United States, Australia, India, South Africa, Spain, the West Indies, Peru, Argentina, and Japan...
...important respect, the NATO members showed that the spirit of NATO is not to be judged simply by declining arms budgets. In recent weeks Soviet Russia has threatened Turkey, Norway, The Netherlands, Denmark, Britain. Greece, Spain, Iceland and most recently West Germany with atomic retaliation if they allow NATO to base atomic weapons on their territories. One by one, the ministers of the threatened countries scornfully declared their rejection of the Soviet threats. Said Norway's Foreign Minister Halvard Lange proudly: "If the Russian intent was to weaken the faith of the Norwegian public in NATO, the effect...
...deal with these complexities. They were poorly known at the front where firewood, food, tobacco, candles, and the enemy were important, in that order. There, the majority of the casualties were accidentally self-inflicted. "If I remember rightly," Orwell wrote, "the first five men I saw wounded in Spain were all wounded by our own weapons." The pass-words were of such an elevating and revolutionary nature that the illiterate sentries usually forgot them and got shot at, escaping only thanks to the consistently poor aim of their comrades...
...many people were deceived by it. "Curiously enough," he wrote, "the whole experience has left me with not less but more belief in the decency of human beings." In following years he kept railing at the verbal beginnings of political dishonesty: Auden's talk of "necessary murder" in Spain, the Munich-era optimism of the Chamberlinian press (described in Coming Up For Air), Pig Napoleon's famous motto that "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." He kept emphasizing that there is a truth to all things, that this truth is often so simple that...