Word: spaniards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Having lived in Spain in the mid-'50s. Author Lobsenz, 28, knows something of the parched, granitic harshness of the Spanish earth and the grave pride and passion of the Spaniard, and he conveys these with authority. Unfortunately, he lacks all control over his plot, and he makes most of his points by bending a reader's ear till it aches. After a flurry of melodrama, Vangel ends up with a whole new set of values. Here they are: "I would like to repeal suffrage for women. I would like to end all war. I would like...
...Communist who had supported Trotsky in his bitter feud with Stalin. Why, then, had he killed him? Because he had become disillusioned with his onetime idol. Sentenced to 20 years, the prisoner clung stubbornly to his story, even though Mexican authorities were able to prove he was actually a Spaniard named Ramón Mercader, a convinced Communist who fought on the Loyalists' side in the Spanish Civil War, was later enrolled in the Soviet NKVD, and eventually reached Mexico on the passport of a Canadian who had been killed in Spain while fighting with the International Brigade...
...Mexico, Trujillo's hoods caught up with a Spaniard named José Almoina Mateos, who had been the dictator's private secretary from 1945 to 1947. Though Almoina had written a slavishly pro-Trujillo book called I Was Trujillo's Secretary, he was also the author of an anonymous and bitter denunciation of the dictator called Satrap in the Caribbean. One morning last week, as Almoina walked to work in Mexico City, a green 1958 Ford ran him down. Then, just to be sure, one of the occupants of the car ran back and pumped three slugs...
This is another lament for the 20th century by the Spaniard who wrote Child of Our Time (TIME, Oct. 20, 1958). In that moving autobiographical novel, Author del Castillo charted a sad trail from the corpse-strewn streets of Madrid to the concentration camps of France and Germany, to something like inner peace at a Jesuit school back in Spain. Still only 26, and now living in Paris, he tries in The Disinherited to revisit the Spanish revolution, which flamed around him when he was a child. At this distance, memory is small help, and the tales of heroes...
...Ildefonso's Father Narciso Seguer wrote to Galinsoga, tactfully suggested that the culprit must have been an impostor using Galinsoga's card. Replied Galinsoga: "The card is mine. To go to church in a Spanish city where one hears, apart from Latin, a language that a Spaniard has no obligation to understand appears absurd...