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Lazarillo. It can hardly be called a novel: its title, La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes y de sus for tunas y adversidades, is almost as long as the shortest of its seven short chapters. And nobody knows who wrote it: the author modestly preferred anonymity to martyrdom. Nevertheless, Lazarillo made a decisive impact on European life and letters. Published in 1554, it was greeted with a loud...
Over the main entrance of the red brick bullring, on the western edge of Lima, hung a sign: "Jesús dijo: yo soy el camino y la verdad y la vida" (Jesus said: I am the way and the truth and the light). Within the ring, 12,000 Peruvians chewed on anticuchos (chunks of grilled beef heart) or sipped chicha (a beer made of corn). There was a hymn, a collection; then a Peruvian missionary announced that they would hear from "the man known all the world over as the Human Bible." In this setting, Baptist Preacher Billy Graham...
...Elsa. To open the Son Vida in approved International Set style, Rainier invited a task force of names and name droppers and sailed on Aristotle Onassis' yacht Christina. Besides his beautiful wife Princess Grace, the guests included the sari-clad Maharani of Baroda, Hollywood Columnist Hedda Hopper and Partygiver Elsa Maxwell, and, of course, Onassis' great and good friend, Maria Callas. There was some worry about the propriety of Rainier's and Princess Grace's traveling on Onassis' yacht, since Ari and Maria are not married-a condition that Princess Grace, as a good Catholic...
...despair of rivals from Cairo to the Catskills. On a visit to Majorca last year. Rainier was impressed by plans initiated by two U.S. promoters to convert a magnificently battlemented castle (vintage 1900) into a luxury hotel and country club and bought into the venture. Called Son Vida (Life Estate), the castle is now an air-conditioned, lavishly plumbed hotel, boasts its own swimming pool, a golf course abuilding, 1,000 acres of well-kept grounds, and a minimum rate ($10) high enough to discourage the cut-rate crowd...
...Marianne Sharke '62 won the Potter prize in Spanish Literature for her thesis, "The Sense of Tragedy in La Vida Es Sueno." David Haberly '63 received the second prize...