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Gregory Rabassa, the eminent translator and authority on Spanish literature, says Cela "kept the Spanish novel alive during those awful years." That period, of course, encompasses the Spanish Civil War and the wrenching adjustments afterward to the Franco dictatorship. Cela, raised in Madrid by his Spanish father and English mother...
It is rhythm -- lots of rhythm -- that accounts for the new craze, and a good deal of the beat comes from the state of Bahia. There, in the Brazilian equivalent of the American Deep South, African tribal dances are blended with European sounds to create the insistent samba; the afoxe...
BUT how can Harvard more effectively build a truly representative faculty without compromising the quality of scholarship? One solution is to lure eminent minority and female scholars away from other institutions with tantalizing offers of tenure.
The decision to open the border came only after a tortuous debate within the Central Committee of the ruling Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party. Hard- liners argued that existing agreements with other socialist states must be upheld, while reformers said it was more important to meet international obligations, among them the...
The primary reason that most foreign firms are so interested in a Hollywood presence is that they want popular American programming for their booming TV stations, cable companies, movie theaters and videocassette ventures. "American entertainment is still viewed as the pre-eminent source of programming in terms of production values...