Word: spain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Marcelino. A miracle play filled with a shining sweetness, made in Spain (TIME...
...Right to Fire. Prices shot up. Olive oil, the staple of Spanish cooking, was raised another 11% last week. Gasoline jumped by a comparable amount. Since Spain's main distribution system depends heavily on trucks, the raise would soon be felt throughout the whole economy. In an effort to counteract inflation with increased productivity, the government decreed, on Christmas Day, that workers would no longer enjoy the state-assured job security that was one of the few blessings they had enjoyed under Franco. Henceforth, businessmen would be free to fire superfluous, incompetent or dishonest workers...
...seek. Since 1936 Russia has been sitting on more than half a billion dollars worth of Spanish gold. When the civil war was only three months old, pro-Communist Finance Minister Juan Negrin secretly ordered 7,800 crates of gold out of the Bank of Spain, had it trucked to Cartagena and then shipped to Russia in charge of four bank officials, for "safekeeping." The Russians kept the Loyalist officials in Moscow for months, counting and recounting the gold. By the time they were released, the Republican government was shattered and in flight...
...myth of New England is profoundly different from the myth of New Spain, and so are the realities. Both parts of the New World may now be good neighbors, but the heirs of the Pilgrims have a hostile notion of all that the Spanish fathered in Latin America. The austere image of the Puritans of 1620 kneeling on the bare beach at Plymouth has obscured in the U.S. mind the more complicated grandeur of the equally devout men who, 100 years before, had kneeled at Mass on their beachhead near the place they came to call Vera Cruz. The notion...
What Author Descola calls "the prodigious curve of this incomparable destiny" begins with a child abandoned on the steps of a church in Spain. It passes through the forming of his expedition in Panama, his defeat of the Incas and his majesty as a marquis, ruler of "the empire of the sun." It moves, finally, to his death, like a Shakespearean tragic hero's on the swords of conspirators. Bloody feuds had broken out, and Pizarro's murderers saw themselves as avengers. Descola describes the scene: "This old man of nearly seventy handled his sword like a youngster...