Word: spaniard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Juan Marichal, professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and a native Spaniard, said he thinks Spain will undergo peaceful transition followed by the establishment of a republic similar...
Violent Xenophobia. Arias' statement apparently touched a nerve of the Spanish psyche that has been highly responsive for centuries: a conviction that Spain is different from the rest of Europe and that Europe resents this. As TIME'S Madrid bureau chief Gavin Scott reports, many Spaniards see their country as being attacked from abroad simply because it is determined to "follow its own road." Some of the banners at the mass rally mirrored this feeling: "When will Europe stop envying Spain?" asked one. Another crudely depicted a Spaniard defecating on a map of Europe...
...Manuel fell to his knees in ecstasy, gratitude and delight-a posture that would occur to few other tennis players. With Jimmy already signed up for another lucrative 'elevised match in Las Vegas early next year, Orantes suddenly found himself looming as the logical challenger. Said the young Spaniard happily: "I think now he has to challenge...
...Spaniard visiting Moscow stops at the Kremlin wall, where his Russian host takes him to view Lenin's remains. "We have one like that," shrugs the Spaniard. "But he sits up and talks." That Madrid joke about ailing Generalissimo Francisco Franco, 82, would be merely crude were it not for the fact that it reflects a deep-rooted bitterness. After 35 years of living under a dictatorial regime notable mostly for its rigid stability, many Spaniards these days are worried about both the erratic course of the Franco regime and el Caudillo 's ability to run the country...
George Santayana, that New England Spaniard, was such an outside-insider. So is Wilfrid Sheed, who-to his public's edification and entertainment -cannot make up his mind whether he will sound like an Oxford-trained critic, an Irish pub wit, a defrocked Catholic priest or a simply first-rate novelist. In any role, he is never more than, say, three-quarters American...