Word: spanishness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MOMENT OF TRUTH. Blood, sand and social protest mix liberally in Director Francesco Rosi's angry drama about the rise and fall of a great bullfighter-played with impressive sting by Spanish Matador Miguel Mateo...
Then there are those 600 Spanish laborers, crossing the Atlantic on an open deck. A particularly nice one drowns after leaping overboard to save a dog. Some of the passengers (the same group again) are overjoyed that the dog has been recovered. The message: some people think dogs are more important than impoverished Spaniards...
...daily accused Yale of "trying to prove the superiority of Northern Europe." Italy's claim to Columbus, scoffed the paper, is equivalent to "crediting Germany with victory in World War II because Eisenhower is of German descent." In fact claimed A.B.C. Editor Torcuato Luca de Tena, it was Spanish Navigator Alfonso Sanchez de Huevla who first discovered the New World in 1484 eight years B.C. (before Columbus...
...morning was brisk, bright and blustery when the papal jet landed at Kennedy Airport. There was the customary exchange of greetings with a phalanx of dignitaries, and soon Paul was bundled off on a 24-mile, two-hour motorcade through Queens and Manhattan (including parts of Negro and Spanish Harlem), where more than 2,000,000 exuberant but respectful New Yorkers crushed to the curbstones. In some places the cheering onlookers were packed five and ten deep along the streets, and Fifth Avenue was a solid sea of faces. But embarrassingly long stretches of the papal route were almost bereft...
...find delightful. When you enter as a first-year student (or an "HMS-1" as you will be known), you will find most of your day taken up by lectures and laboratories. Probably, you will live in Vanderbilt Hall, an enormous dormitory, done up outside as a sort of Spanish palace. It sports Boston's most elegant address--1007 Avenue Louis Pasteur. Regrettably, elegance vanishes a few steps beyond the front door: the hallways are done up as a sort of Spanish dungeon, and the dining hall's best efforts are about comparable to those of Central Kitchens. Unless...