Word: spanishness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...requirement for valid explanation, for honest justification of U.S. actions. But as Lyndon Johnson continues to seek a consensus of approval, he remains a prisoner of critics who are often capricious. Many of the same people who urged Franklin Roosevelt to come to the aid of the Spanish Republic and fight fascism in the Spanish Civil War now call for a retreat from a fight against Communism in Viet Nam. One of their reasons: it is a civil war. Some of the loudest dissenters from any U.S. military presence in Southeast Asia were the most militant interventionists when the Arab...
...came from Andalusia-a symbol, said the baby's father, of that region's graciousness and warmth. The water was flown in from the River Jordan. The minister was the Archbishop of Madrid, and the guests included members of three royal families (Greece, Bulgaria and Spain), two Spanish Cabinet ministers and Generalissimo Francisco Franco. Thus last week, in the 20-room Zarzuela Palace on the outskirts of Madrid, Felipe Juan Pablo Alfonso y Todos los Santos de Borbón, who might by the 21st century sit on the Spanish throne, was freed from the bonds of original...
...with good reason. Felipe is the first son of Prince Juan Carlos and Princess Sophie (whose brother is the exiled King Constantine of Greece) and the first heir to the throne to be born in Spain since the monarchy fell in 1931. For the Borbóns-the Spanish branch of the Bourbons-it was a heady occasion indeed. The baby's great-grandmother, 80-year-old Dowager Queen Victoria Eugenia, ended 37 years of exile (most of it self-imposed) to fly in from Nice for the baptism. His grandfather, Don Juan de Borbón y Battenberg...
Behavior has changed. The Peace Corps' effort in the last two years to improve language proficiency has been called the most significant force in linguistic development in the nation today. Still, for one whose Spanish still halts after a year in Latin America, sensitivity is indeed a distressing problem. The Peace Corps, spectacularly successful in some language programs, must still admit too many disappointments. In many countries, particularly in Africa, fluency in indigenous languages has for most Volunteers been total illusion. But very recent developments in language immersion do promise substantial progress from wish to reality in both exotic...
...Benito Cereno, Herman Melville's parable about slavery, the moody, vaguely ailing captain of a Spanish slave ship is asked: "What has cast such a shadow upon you?" He replies simply: "The Negro." In the long aftershadow of centuries, that answer, says James Pope-Hennessy, still holds true...