Word: spain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...voice was not very shapely either, but through intermittent recitative, consummate stagecraft, and the selection of the ablest contemporary poets as her lyricists, she convinced even a contemporary London music critic, George Bernard Shaw, that she was "technically, highly accomplished." Among other aficionados: Spain's King Alphonso XIII, though he laughed at all the wrong parts, and Britain's roistering King Edward VII, who saw her each summer at Marienbad at the luncheons that he reserved for the untouchables...
...Spain's centuries of in-and overbreeding have produced bravery as well as hemophilia-and an anti-hero like Pascual Duarte. He is a rogue in the sense of being, like the fighting bull, specially bred, running separate from the herd, amuck, savage and destructive. He is a basic black part of the Spanish conscience...
Pascual's cuckold horns become the horns of the sacrificial Spanish bull. Having drawn blood, he charges on till he gores the very flesh that made him: his mother, whom he guiltily loves and hates, who symbolizes Spain. "There is no deeper hatred than blood hatred, hatred for one's own blood," reflects Pascual. He hates his mother for her blasphemy, sluttishness, ignorance and indifference. She cannot even produce tears at the funeral of her younger son. Unconsciously, Pascual decides she will weep blood...
Goldwater less than enthusiastic support, describing Rockefeller as a "spoilsport" and the Republican Party's "principal divider." Rockefeller was vacationing in Madrid, and the rain in Spain fell lightly on his pain. Nixon's "peevish post-election utterance," he replied, was "hardly calculated to advance" Republican Party unity. But Rocky also managed to put his finger squarely on the real Republican problem. "We don't have a Republican Party right now," he said. "We have 50 Republican parties." Diddley-Do. The distance between the extremes of the Republican Party is no greater than...
...reign in Spain, postulates the author, is "the cult of virility," and woman's fate is to be "enslaved and betrayed." On the reader's acceptance of this arch axiom teeters this over-suave tale. Its stagy business, and that of the Duchess of Combon de Triton, is to make her "appallingly stupid" cluke the first faithful husband in Spanish history. Her scheme is to win his compassion by feigning illness and his awe by submitting to surgical cures without anesthesia or a whimper. Some 30 agonizing operations later, the duke commits suicide. Now the widow, whose "only...