Word: spaniard
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...Cortés that historians have shown us up to now are really copies of Emperor Charles the Fifth. When Cortés was alive, he never allowed a picture of himself to be made."*Rivera said he based his new Cortés on scientific examination of the Spaniard's cranium and leg bones, discovered in 1947 in a floor crypt of the Mexico City's ancient Hospital of Jesus. "I have painted Cortés this way to give an exact idea of him and destroy the legend...
Zurbaran was best at such stone-cold, stone-solid figure pieces as the Monk. A somber ascetic, the 17th Century Spaniard never strayed from his native land or from his passionately simple, sculptural style. Like Velasquez, he was a realist who painted only from models, but while Velasquez was concerned chiefly with color, Zurbaran cared only for form...
However, Franco is also a patriotic Spaniard who does not always put the interests of his Falange Party first. The Falange, which is the worst element in present Spanish politics, lost ground in the cabinet shakeup. The army held its ground. Monarchists (meaning, in Spain, conservatives who deplore much in the Franco regime) got nine out of 16 cabinet seats, a gain of three. There was serious talk that Franco might put young (13-year-old) Juan Carlos, son of the Pretender Don Juan, on the throne...
...year-old patriarch of Spanish art critics limped scornfully out of Madrid's baroque Crystal Palace. What shocked him, and many another Spaniard, was an exhibit of religious art from Roman Catholic mission fields. Traditionalist Spaniards looked with anger upon the freedom with which the faraway artists had rendered scantily clad Virgins, Chinese Holy Families, Indian Gods squatting Buddha-like-all dominated by a huge statue of Christ dressed as a sannyasi (Hindu ascetic) renouncing this world...
...York police commissioner, to become Assistant Secretary of the Navy ("The Secretary is away, and I am having immense fun running the Navy"), to go to Cuba in the Spanish-American War and lead the Rough Riders at San Juan Hill ("By the way, I then killed a Spaniard myself with the pistol . . . which was raked up from the Maine"), to return to the U.S. as a military hero and, finally, at the ripe old age of 40, to be elected governor of New York. ("Some belated Fenians came up to sound me as to what my attitude would...