Word: spanishness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wouldn't even think of the Coop for foreign books," said Brad S. Epps, assistant professor of romance languages and head tutor for Spanish. He orders instead from local foreign-language bookstore Schoenhof's, a long-time Harvard institution...
...hypnotic Chinese pole act, for which the circus is justly renowned, 16 acrobats in swirled leotards scramble up, down and around a set of four poles like a collection of futuristic monkeys. Ann Bernard and Helene Lemay deliver another excellent set with their dance, reminiscent of groundstomping Spanish flamenco. Dressed in flaming scarlet leotards and mean-looking red high-heeled boots, and yielding gaucho's hunting weapons called boleadoras (a rope with a wooden ball fastened on the end), these women tap and swing themselves into a frenzy that resembles a highspeed cuisinart. Their grip on their whirling weaponry...
...force within Islam. In the 15th century, facing persecution and exile, European Jews found solace in the mystical writings known as the Cabala. Even Western Christianity, which has been strongly suspicious of ineffability, had its mystical tradition, exemplified by such figures as the German Dominican Meister Eckehart and the Spanish saint, Teresa of Avila...
Magaziner called his biggest conferences "tollgates," a management-theory term applied to meetings in which progress reports are delivered and course corrections made. Linda Bergthold, a private consultant from San Francisco, remembers them as "a cross between Ph.D. orals and the Spanish Inquisition." Members crammed a meeting room on the fourth floor of the Old E.O.B. until the room grew so crowded that they sat on the floor and windowsills and peeked in the door. A lack of coatracks forced members to dump wraps on the floor. At each session, task-force leaders would present their progress on, for example...
Harris says she sang in the school's world-class choir, played on the volleyball team for two years, served on the student council, was president of her church youth group, was a member of the Spanish Club, won the award for best all-round student in her high school, earned a place in the National Honor Society and won the National Achievement award for Outstanding Negroes...