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...quarrel is entwined in Catalonian politics. A symbol of the Catholic right, the church was sacked by anarchists in 1936, during Spain's civil war. Gaudi's drawings and plaster models went up in flames, but molds and photographs survived. Architect Jordi Bonet, who supervises the construction budget, says the opponents are "people who don't want a church as the emblem of our city." Moreover, Subirachs has publicly scorned the abstract artists favored by city hall in its Olympic building binge -- and the disdain is mutual. Says poet Joan Brossa: "Gaudi was avant-garde, but Subirachs is retro-garde...
...been caught up in the drama of a "scheduled war" since 1898. Back then, debate swirled for weeks as Washington matrons in their taffeta ruffles watched from the congressional galleries, and finally the weary William McKinley gave in to the fevered Congress and the U.S. went to war with Spain...
What is most striking about that table is its national representation. To go around this week's table, the students came from Brazil, France, Mexico, Spain, Greece, Poland and Korea (is something missing...
...Lord Charteris of Amisfield, have quietly set about revolutionizing the classic institution from within. Realizing, as Anderson stresses, that Eton must prepare its students for a more international world, it has opened its doors to more and more scholarship students and to boys from Germany, the Soviet Union and Spain. Latin is fading toward obsolescence, while Arabic, Japanese and Swahili are / all on the curriculum. In a sense, the place is drawing closer to its founder's original notion of a truly "public" school. "It is a privileged school," acknowledges Anderson, an energetic and articulate Scotsman from a family...
...Hispanics," they explain, can be people who have lived in the United States all their lives. Or they can be recent arrivals from Nicaragua. Their ancestors may have hailed from Mexico, Puerto Rico, Argentina, Spain or any one of a number of places around the globe...