Word: toreros
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...listed drawbacks aplenty, notably dullard school boards, low pay and low prestige. They emphasized a paradox created by crowded schools: U.S. teachers now look forward to school jobs that "will get them out of the classroom." Especially affected is the really good teacher-"a master, an expert, a torero"-who gets all the tough classes with no extra pay. Eventually, he grabs an administrative job to survive. "The whole question of improving U.S. education," said one teacher, "is tied up with this dichotomy...
...time out from research on a new book to answer an invitation from the Soviet Union's Literary Gazette. Would Papa come to Russia with Ike? "Why should I go to Russia while there is bullfighting in Spain?" If the Soviets would also invite Matador Antonio Ordonez (brilliant torero son of the bullfighter portrayed in The Sun Also Rises), Hemingway said he might reconsider...
...Working a bull feels natural to me," he explains. "It's as natural as driving a car. Dominating a huge, powerful animal gives me the greatest feeling in the world. You can compare a bullfight to a Shakespearean tragedy. Someone always gets killed, sometimes a torero and almost always the bull, and I can't see a thing in the world funny about it..That's what I like about it-the drama. You can taste it when you're in there with a good bull...
...said the scum of Europe came to us, and perhaps they did, but the strong ones came first . . . well, there's a poem on the Statue of Liberty . . ." And sure enough, she quotes Emma Lazarus ("Give me your tired, your poor'') for five lines. Repentantly the torero discovers the real America: accepting the yanqui dollar, the moral seems to be, does not mean wearing the yanqui collar...
...shines down upon him like the sun, and the ancient mold of village life supports him as a pot supports a plant. Nevertheless, he lives in a physical misery that is proper subject for the indignation of all feeling men, and with this picture Producer Manuel Barbachano Ponce (Torero!) has added a significant page to the cinematic literature of protest...