Word: montezuma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...puts not from the shore?" asked Poet Samuel Daniel in England's expansive 16th century. "Danger hath honor; great designs their fame/Glory doth follow, courage goes before." Daniel's poem was the mercantile ethic frozen in meter. In that spirit, the conquistadors braved terra incognita to bleed Montezuma of his gold; the slave traders kidnaped tribesmen from Africa. In that spirit empires were created-and the conflicts of colonialism that still haunt the world. The motives for these enterprises were not necessarily ignoble. Few men take risks for gain alone if glory does not follow, and most...
Allport was always intensely proud that he had been associated almost continually with the University since he arrived as a freshman in 1915. He was born Nov. 11, 1897, in Montezuma, Ind., and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of a physician, Dr. John Allport. When he came to Cambridge, an older brother, Floyd, was already here as a graduate student and instructor in psychology...
CORTEZ AND THE LEGEND (ABC, 8-9 p.m.). Kirk Douglas narrates the epic of Hernando Cortez's conquest of Mexico. Cameras retrace the route taken by Cortez and his band from Tabasco, where they landed in 1519, to Mexico City, site of Montezuma's Aztec capital, which they destroyed...
...visited the island, stepping out from behind a bush and introducing the third Reich, her six-year-old son David. "You are a good man," said beauty to the beast. "I was wondering if you could help me stay here." Er, um, muttered the hapless brute. Give him Montezuma any time...
EXPLORING (NBC, 1-2 p.m.). The story of Montezuma, ruler of the Aztecs. Eli Wallach narrates. Color...