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… night on the town. Everywhere one turns today one hears complaints about the political situation, moans of disbelief … International World’s Fair (Seville), and the Cultural Capitalship of Europe (Madrid). Whereas in 1982 only 23 percent … Finnegan wrote in The New Yorker in 1992, “for all the medieval images that still cling to the country, “the real …

… if she knew how I came to know about it. It would spoil her comfortable picture of me, stuck from birth in the concrete … men, from all sorts of backgrounds. Unlike the Vogue ladies, however, these outsiders adored her, for she was not … old files of the magazine, but it did render up the 1926 edition of Vogue’s Book of Etiquette .After I left the …

… of fertilizers and explosives. By 1877, a British-Chilean company was working the guano deposits, and they wanted only … massacred indigenous leaders, and disappeared intellectuals and politicos, like Marcelo Quiroga Santa Cruz, the … In 1544, as the story goes, a llama herder named Diego Huallpa discovered silver near Potosí, some 500 …

… of an education, when its inherent possibilities are compared with those it achieved, must strike the honest … fraction of the life we yet deeply know and endure and die. It is the failure the mind comes to ultimately and all … recognised, with the failure which as we feel it is also our own in prospect. Let us take for our first emphasis …

… the rubber baron who went mad when his beloved opera singer died of yellow fever. Even though he nursed her, his body … a performance. When she stumbled and cried out, the audience believed she was crippled by grief and wept harder. …