Word: spanishness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Raimundo Lida, professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, has been appointed to the Smith Professorship of the French and Spanish Languages and Literatures...
Lida is internationally known for his studies of Spanish and Hispanic American Literary figures...
...shape," wrote Debray, "and the excitement of the officers who were venting their anger on me, with no precise goal in mind, had reached its peak." They were "amusing themselves," said Debray, "by firing between my legs and as close to my head as possible." Then along came some Spanish-speaking CIA agents who "called a halt to such shenanigans, summoned a doctor and at first treated me with utmost courtesy." In Washington, the CIA would neither confirm nor deny Debray's story. Whatever role the CIA may have played, Debray's life was probably saved ultimately...
...employ a mosaic technique where flashbacks and quick montages of thoughts and objects are inserted, reaffirming Resnais' flair for visual stream of consciousness. Where Hiroshima Mon Amour used mostly flashbacks, La Guerre Est Finie's inserts are mostly flash-forwards: fears and premonitions of Diego, the middle-aged Spanish revolutionary, played so magnificently by Yves Montand. In sight and Sound, Tom Milne describes Diego as caught between two worlds "in more ways than one: between Spain and France, between youth and age, between the old Spain of the International Brigade and the new one of tourist paradises, between his settled...
...like the Americans," says a Dane, "I must admit that they suffer from a kind of superman mentality." Europeans also resent the fact that U.S. firms deal brusquely or not at all with trade unions, discontinue such traditions as the German breakfast break on company time or the Spanish siesta, and, unlike paternalistic European firms, lay off workers in recessions. When ITT recently considered buying Belgium's second best football team in order to get its stadium for employee recreation, cynical Belgians quickly predicted that ITT would undoubtedly cut the team from eleven players to nine...