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Thornton Wilder, Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, spoke on the plays of Lope de Vega at the Modern Languages Association's meeting in New York's Hotel Statler December...
...working on two of my latest loves," the master said in a quick, clipped speech which became occasionally inaudible. "One is Spanish literature, specifically Lope de Vega." In part, this Spanish literature study will be background for Wilder's half of Humanities 2. He likes to spend hours in Widener developing minute studies, and keeps a journal as a record of his fluctuating scholarly interests...
...bells of "Madrid's venerable Town Hall pealed out a quarter to midnight. In front of the unpretentious apartment house at No. 10 Calle de la Vega the night watchman banged his stick on the sidewalk, clanked a ring of keys, then unlocked the door for a party of four plainclothesmen. The visitors walked up the stairs to the apartment of Don Bernardo Bernardez, 63, respected executive of the Banco Iberico and well-known elder of Spain's monarchist movement...
...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...