Word: vegas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...practical eye of Jesus Antonio Molina Vega, an architect and contractor, Colombian religious art seemed decadent. He thought he could do better. Three years ago, in his native city of Neiva (pop. 35,000), he started work on a statue of Christ...
Australia helpfully suggested that since the English language was in dispute, everyone should talk Spanish. Up jumped Mexican Delegate Santiago de la Vega. His language had been insulted! No, shushed a colleague: it was a compliment, not an insult...
...life he had scribbled poor verses and unsuccessful plays (he was a little envious of the then famous and incredibly fecund playwright, Lope de Vega). But in Quixote, Cervantes knew that he had written a bestseller. He predicted, in jest, a sale of 30,000,000 copies (just about it). Biographer Bell, with other critics, observes that this bland and spacious masterpiece is less simple than it seems. More than a satire on medieval romances, which were the soap operas of Cervantes' age, it leads even the earthy Sancho Panza into a subtly dizzying identification of reality and dream...
...Spaniards and Argentines. It also involved some fancy costuming. It was the hottest day of the year when Evita got the diamond-encrusted Grand Cross of Isabel la Católica from Dictator Franco; but she wore a full-length mink cape. At the special performance of Lope de Vega's classic Spanish drama, Fuente Ovejuna in the Teatro Español, Evita turned up in a long cape of ostrich feathers. At the bullfight, which she held up half an hour by arriving late (the opening was never delayed for Alfonso XIII), Evita again bugged Spanish eyes...
...Mexico's Davis Cup brother act-Rolando and Armando Vega-took a deep breath and blew Canada out of the running without losing a set. The U.S. team, which swallowed the underweight Filipinos in the other American zone Davis Cup playoff, must now tangle with the Vegas...