Word: spaniards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moved aside to make room for it). Goya painted the Self Portrait in 1820 at the peak of his genius, as a tribute to a man he firmly believed saved his life. In 1819 Goya was 73 years old, totally deaf and seriously ill. Sickness always made the touchy Spaniard roar with anguish and self-pity. "I'm so frantic, I can scarcely stand myself," he told a friend. But a sympathetic doctor named Arrieta brought him around, and the artist decided to put his gratitude into a picture...
...Paris, the Spanish ambassador requested Rodriguez' arrest and extradition. France, sensing the Spaniard's urgency, offered to trade Rodriguez for Raymond Viadieu, onetime deputy mayor of Toulouse now serving eight years in a Spanish jail for espionage. Tipped off about the deal, Rodriguez and Africa flew off to Mexico, which has neither diplomatic relations nor an extradition treaty with Spain. Mexico, however, badly wanted to get its hands on a couple of Mexican counterfeiters who were living a high life in Madrid after swamping Latin America with fake pesos. Madrid proposed a subtle solution...
...beautifully." Her working plans include doing most of her writing in bed ("I hardly ever get up, unless there is some party which I think I will enjoy wildly"), and perhaps suggesting an idea or two on color schemes ("I know of a wonderful Elizabethan color called 'dead Spaniard,' but I can't remember whether it's brown...
...appalled by the crudity and barbarity of bull-fighting. We know nothing like this in our rather wide assortment of athletics, except possibly a B.C.-B.U. hockey game, so perhaps it requires the Spanish temperament to appreciate bull-fighting as a sport and as a form of entertainment. The Spaniard might point out that his sport involves no more punishment than many American boxing matches, and he would be partly right. But the analogy is not really valid: here when one of the participants appears severely weakened, his opponent is not permitted to butcher him completely...
Valentín González, a fiery, black-bearded Spaniard, was once a Communist hero -and why not? The man had all the makings : 1) he was a landlord-hating peasant who could kill an enemy and sleep soundly afterwards; 2) he was a fine troop commander, a tough, natural leader who became a living legend during the Spanish civil war; 3) he was a Communist...