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...cloudy, and many of the 5000 or so students marching toward the rector's house at the University of Madrid were carrying unbrellas. There was no talking as they walked, 14 abreast, bundled against the February chill...
...four professors leading the student march, Jose Luis Aranguren, former professor of Ethics and Sociology at the University of Madrid, stepped forward to talk with the commanding officer. "He said he didn't have the authority to turn us back or let us go on," Aranguren recalled recently. "He said we should wait until he talked with his superior on the radio...
...sitting down, talking: his hands twirl like pinwheels when he hunts for an English word, and deep lines crease his forehead as he organizes his thoughts. He is always the teacher and writer--he wrote several books on religion and ethics before joining the faculty of the University of Madrid in 1955--forever putting things in historical and philosophical perspective. He is currently on a lecture tour of universities in the United States, speaking on philosophy and Spanish affairs...
...appalled at our leaders' ability to manipulate politics, to deceive people, and coerce our allies. He is horrified at our capacity to watch computerized slaughter on the 5 o'clock news, and to support it. He wonders "where the good Germans were in 1937 when the Stukas were bombing Madrid, or in 1941, when Eichmann began punctiliously to carry out his orders. A great puzzle, but one which is losing its distance...
...belief that General Franco's Spain is growing more liberal is just a "kind of make-believe," Jose Luis Aranguren, former professor of Philosophy and Letters at the University of Madrid, said last night...