Word: spanishness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...experts landed running. He hosted a breakfast for Argentine businessmen, met with local farm officials, and consulted with Foreign Minister Juan Martin and Economics Minister Jose Maria Dagnino Pastore. At noon, Rocky was off to see President Juan Carlos Ongania for two hours of frank talk in Spanish, which Rockefeller speaks well. While the members of his task force, armed with tape recorders, fanned out to talk with local counterparts in fields as diverse as exports and hospitals, the Governor huddled in secret with antigovernment students. It was a caustic session. The students told Rocky that they...
Malinchista: traitor to the Mexican-American cause. From Mal-inche, the daughter of a Mexican nobleman, who became Cortes' mistress and aided the Spanish in their conquest of Mexico...
Mestizo: person of mixed Spanish and Indian blood, as are most Mexican Americans. Gueros have relatively light skins; trigueños are somewhat darker...
...Spanish Civil...
...poetry, as in politics, the predominant quality of the man who wrote these lines has not so much been talent or intellect as extraordinary compassion. A near Marxist as well as a poet during the years of the Spanish Civil War, Stephen Spender has worn reasonably well since he served as Auden's slightly junior fellow in the vanguard of English verse. Now an uncomplacent 60, he knows that nothing turns off a young radical quicker than old radicals who say "When I was a boy ..." Yet ironically, compassionately, he sees the New Left making many...