Word: spaniards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...answer is that Cardinal Segura speaks for the oldest tradition of the Spanish church-one that has come down the years with stubborn strength since the power of the Moors was broken in the 13th century. But today many a Spaniard believes that Cardinal Segura is obsolete. Segura insists 1) that the people are incapable of self-guidance, and 2) that they need to be saved from themselves by a church-directed state which applies the rules of religion with an iron glove. In the past, Cardinal Segura clashed with King Alfonso XIII because he thought him far too mild...
...mere English"; she determinedly kept her people out of continental entanglements and gave them 30 years of peace in which to develop their resources-industrial, commercial, maritime and artistic. Then began a surge to empire: Elizabeth's privateers, Drake and Frobisher, singed the beard of the Spaniard, Sir Walter Raleigh planted the royal standard in the forests of Virginia, and England's gallant little fleet repulsed the Spanish Armada. Elizabeth queened it over an age crowded with greatness, which nourished such figures as Shakespeare and Ben Jonson. She was the strongest queen and the most vital woman ever...
...often been pictured as on the verge of bankruptcy and starvation, said Sufrin, it is more nearly self-sufficient than some other European nations (e.g., Britain and Belgium). If Spain were to lower slightly its already low standard of living, which Sufrin puts at $160 income a year per Spaniard, it could do without foreign aid and without international trade...
...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...