Word: spain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Providing an Answer. By far the most important accomplishment of the new constitution, however, is that it provides an answer for the first time to the question that has plagued Spain ever since the civil war: What will happen when Franco dies? As before, his regime will have to choose between a king (most probably Don Juan de Borbón y Battenberg, 53, the liberal-minded pretender to the Spanish throne) and a regent (favored by antimonarchists as a device to turn Spain into a republic). But the new constitution provides some guarantee that the death of Franco...
...indications are that he will. If so, he will have established the machinery for an orderly continuity that Spain so long has lacked...
...been translated into political rebellion at home. On the contrary, it usually fires the patriotism of a beleaguered citizenry. In the case of Cuba, the U.S. embargo supplied Castro with the perfect excuse to explain to the Cuban people the failures of his revolution. The U.N. boycott of Franco Spain, which lasted from 1945 until 1950, led Spaniards to tighten their belts and close ranks behind him. Like the members of a quarreling family, they simply would not tolerate outside meddling in their own affairs. There is every indication that Rhodesia's embattled whites feel the same...
...music-hall routines. Everyone but Harrison was amused, but in the New York premiere he, too, came to appreciate Julie. As the stage manager recalls it, during the first act when Eliza, Henry Higgins and Colonel Pickering fall back on the couch together after The Rain in Spain, Harrison suddenly dried up. He couldn't remember his next line, and the audience held its breath-until Julie grabbed hands and pulled them back to their feet. "Let's take a little bow, boys," she chirped. They did-and Harrison picked up his line. The house broke...
...Leslie Dewart, a Roman Catholic philosopher who was born in Spain and now teaches at St. Michael's College of the University of Toronto, the trouble is not so much with God as with the language used to describe him. What Christianity needs, Dewart says in The Future of Belief (Herder & Herder; $4.95), is to "de-Hellenize" its thinking, abandoning concepts of God derived from Greek and Medieval philosophy that are out of accord with the contemporary experience...