Word: spaniards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...valiant taxi-driver (Gene Kelly) who rushes at the priest's killers with his bare fists, takes everything his torturers can give him in solitary confinement-and utterly loses his courage. The Spaniard (Joseph Calleia), the only prisoner who is politically as sophisticated as the Nazis, is cold-blooded in his preference that the broken taxi-driver should die rather than return to infect his comrades with despair. The young bourgeois lawyer (Jean Pierre Aumont) is horrified when his fellows plot to kill the wine-merchant without a trial, yet he succeeds him as a trusty. He manages...
...Italy's northern cities had won self-rule from the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa. Florence and Venice had once borne the title of republic. But the trend had been beaten down through the centuries when the peninsula served as the cockpit of Guelph and Ghibelline, despot and noble, rival Spaniard, Frenchman and German. In Milan, in 1805, Napoleon Bonaparte had crowned himself with the iron crown of Lombardy. In Milan, in 1848, the Habsburg General Count Joseph Radetzky had smashed the people's barricades. But the day of Italy's Risorgimento (resurrection) came. In 1870 the poor, frugal...
...Freud! Freud's cranium is a snail!" Dali eventually met Freud. But only when Dali's voice "became involuntarily sharper and more insistent . . . before [Freud's] imperturbable indifference," did the psychological giant finally blurt out: "I have never seen a more complete example of a Spaniard. What a fanatic...
Last week the Spaniard was bidding for the year's prize white elephant, William Randolph Hearst's $500,000 dismantled Spanish monastery. Marked down to a mere $19,000, it involved an important joker: the buyer must cart it away. Even to a nearby site, the freight would run into big money...
This is reason enough, thinks Author Morison, to believe that Columbus was not a Spaniard or a Portuguese (both na tions claim him as a native son). Salvador de Madariaga's recent ingenious attempt to prove that Columbus was an unconverted Jew is dismissed as "a significant pattern of hypotheses and innuendoes unsupported by anything so vulgar as fact." Professor Morison also smiles wanly at stories like Columbus and the egg.* Nor, says he, did Isabella pawn her jewels to outfit Columbus' ships. She only said she would if it was necessary; it wasn...