Word: spanishness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most positive experience was with a couple of Spanish speaking people who had either recently moved to the U.S. or had no families here," Saenz said, "Our group's liaison and I spoke Spanish, and they really appreciated that someone came and could speak with them...
Born in poverty, uneducated, Menchu became a farm laborer as a small child, tending corn and beans on her parents' tiny plot and traveling with them to the south to work on coffee, cotton and sugar plantations. She did not even learn to speak Spanish until she was 20. But the world learned her story with the 1983 publication of her autobiography I, Rigoberta Menchu, which eventually appeared in 11 languages. It tells of Quiche life in the mountains and the domination of the Indians, who make up 60% of the population, by the minority Ladinos, mostly the descendants...
Beltran sang in Greek, Spanish and English, while Paul sang a tune about Wilbur, the politically incorrect rat. The concert lineup also included local artists Barbara Kessler, with Orrin Star and Rod MacDonald making surprise appearances...
...scene: A cinema in Buenos Aires, July 26, 1952. A group of theater-goers are watching a movie. The movie stops and the lights come up to the chagrin of the audience. We hear a voice over the intercom speaking in Spanish, which is soon drowned out by the monotonic English translation of the day's latest news: "To inform the people of Argentina that Eva Peron, spiritual leader of the nation, entered immortality at 20:25 hours today...
...cultures of Asia were superior to their own. Desperate for the wealth of the East, Europe had little to offer in exchange but the one true faith. Like the Crusaders, the explorers were inspired by curiosity and the desire to get rich. But they also wished, as the Spanish historian Bernal Diaz del Castillo put it, "to give light to those who were in darkness." Wherever European colonies were established, missionaries soon followed...