Word: spain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shaffer's Pizarro is a 20th century existentialist in the body of a 16th century swineherd. Born a bastard, he is too poor to count as human in the society of Spain. At 59, he scorns any ideal of military chivalry he once held. Love is a mockery and faith a nagging memory of trust betrayed. Even the gold is "only a metal" to him, but he pursues it as Ahab pursued the white whale. Just as Ahab was obsessed with the mystery of existence, Pizarro is haunted by the emptiness of being. Both are horrified by the blank...
...movement will be an integral part of a movement for socialism in America. It will involve students and young workers, and be an important source of allies for the working class. Radical youth movements of this sort are found in every major country in the world except South Africa, Spain, Portugal, and other fascist countries. In these countries, the youth movements are underground. In our country, the movement is in its infancy...
...MADRID. Such narrators as John Gielgud and Irene Worth add eloquent words to rare newsreel footage assembled by French Producer-Director Frédéric Rossif, who reshapes Spain's savage civil war of 1936-1939 into a powerful work...
Outside the hotel in Buenos Aires, an angry crowd chanted, "Death to the tyrant!" Inside, a handsome, dark-haired woman held court for newsmen. She was Isabel Martínez de Perón, 34, third wife of the ex-dictator who, at 70, lives in Spain and insists that he will one day return to Argentina. How was Juan Domingo Perón? asked a reporter. "In excellent health," she replied. And what was she doing back home? "I have come on a mission of peace," smiled Isabel...
...German. In Spain, which likes to think of Cristobal Colon as a son of Castile, Franco's press denounced Ericsson, Yale and the Italians all at once. Damning the university's acquisition as "necrophagous"-feeding on the dead-A.B.C., Madrid's largest daily accused Yale of "trying to prove the superiority of Northern Europe." Italy's claim to Columbus, scoffed the paper, is equivalent to "crediting Germany with victory in World War II because Eisenhower is of German descent." In fact claimed A.B.C. Editor Torcuato Luca de Tena, it was Spanish Navigator Alfonso Sanchez...