Word: spanishness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Spanish-American War, the U.S. acquires the Philippines and Puerto Rico...
...United States of America is an immigrant society, and has been since the beginnings of European settlement in the late 16th century. English, French, Spanish, Italians, Africans, Chinese, Japanese and everyone else have been carrying parts of their past, their inherited or remembered culture, into America for the past 400 years. As a result, American art tells the American story: Americans, like any other people, inscribe their histories, beliefs, attitudes, desires and dreams in the images they make...
...social context--although there are times when silence itself can be read as a significant act of sublimation. There's very little visual art, for instance, that directly deals with slavery. Or, to take another example, here is a country founded on religious impulses--Puritanism in the Northeast, Spanish Catholic missions in the Southwest--which nevertheless has hardly produced any major doctrinally religious work...
CEFERINO JIMENEZ MALLA When in Roma...Spanish horse trader is the first Gypsy beatified by the Catholic Church...
DIED. NARCISCO YEPES, 69, classical Spanish guitarist who redesigned his beloved instrument, adding four strings, to accommodate his technical prowess; of cancer; in Murcia, Spain. Fans took to Yepes' theme song to Rene Clement's Forbidden Games (1951), but his peers never accepted his 10-stringed fingerboard--despite the enhanced resonance under his deft touch...