Word: spain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...elections scheduled for next spring, the Congo's old extremists are lurking in the wings. Egide Davidson Bocheley, partisan of the erratic late Premier Patrice Lumumba, outlined his national policy recently at a press conference: "Kill Adoula! Kill [President Joseph] Kasavubu! Chase out the Americans!" Tshombe, relaxing in Spain after treatment for eye trouble and amoebic dysentery, has assured friends that he plans an active part in the campaign...
...colorism. His vision was acute and reportorial. He sought out such scenes as a cavalryman dragged across a field by his horse or oxen idly sniffing an oddly crumpled hat, the only sign of life in a devastated battleground. Another leader was Giovanni Boldini from Ferrara, who traveled through Spain with Degas and later settled in Paris to paint exquisitely mannered portraits. A third was Vincenzo Cabianca from Verona, who loaded his canvas with oil until its scumbled surface resembled earthen ware, yet caught the rich visual effect of sun-drenched landscape...
What Ever Happened to Royalty? (ABC, 9-10 p.m.). A portrait of the European royalty that will probably never reign, including Prince Louis Ferdinand of Hohenzollern, Don Juan and Victoria Eugenie of Spain...
Because of the shadowy origins of a great-great-grandmother, Venezuela born Simón Bolívar was considered a mestizo, and resented the second-class treatment he received at the court of King Charles IV of Spain in 1803. Returning to Latin America in 1807, he led the wars of independence that cost the Spanish throne some of its richest New World possessions and established Bolívar, a lover of fine horseflesh and handsome women, as one of the foremost machos of history...
...upon the attitude of the nation's or region's Catholic hierarchy. The hierarchies in several countries have received papal permission to use the language of the country in parts of the Mass. Enthusiasm for liturgical reform in Germany and France contrasts with stony immobility in Ireland, Spain and much of Latin America. In the U.S., liturgical reform is slowly but steadily progressing. Many Catholic churches in the U.S. have adopted the dialogue Mass. In some churches, the congregation repeats parts of the Mass in English, following along after an assisting priest, or even a layman, who stands...