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...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...
...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 But today many a Spaniard believes that Cardinal Segura is obsolete.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...