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......American jazz singer, b. Newport News, Va. Probably the most celebrated jazz vocalist of her generation, Fitzgerald was reared in Yonkers, N.Y., moving after her mother's death (1932) to Harlem, where two years later she won an amateur......

...Generation of '98, Spanish literary and cultural movement...included Valle Inclán, Unamuno, Benavente y Martínez, Baroja y Nessi, Ramiro de Maeztu, Darío, and Azorín...and Antonio Machado, as well as Ortega y Gasset, Pérez de Ayala, and Marañón......

...Pío Baroja y Nessi (pē´ō bärō´hä ē nās´sē), 1879–1956, Spanish novelist from the Basque Provinces, member of the group of writers known as the Generation of '98. He left medicine to devote himself to literature and came to......

......in the Niagara River, W N.Y. and S Ont., Canada; one...cities of Niagara Falls, N.Y., and Niagara Falls, Ont...the city of Niagara Falls, N.Y. FormationThe falls were formed...of Ontario (now Ontario Power Generation). Water is diverted from the......

......Icelandic the surname is patronymic, and it changes from generation to generation. French de, when written separately, like German...combining those of each parent, e.g., Serrano y Domínguez or Serrano Domínguez, for one whose father......

......railway. An oil refinery and electrical generation plants are also important to economy...when the Spanish admiral Pascual Cervera y Topete, bottled up in the harbor, made...revolutionary struggle against Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar by attacking the Moncada army......

......were Leopoldo Lugones, Julio Herrera y Reissig, Ricardo Jaimes Freyre, Guillermo...Spain deeply. The Spanish writers of the Generation of '98, notably Miguel de Unamuno, Ramón...After World War I the writers of the new generation revolted against the mannerisms and hollow......

......1919–, American author and publisher, b. Yonkers, N.Y. In 1951 he moved to San Francisco and helped found the City Lights Bookshop, which became a center for writers of the beat generation. He has written volumes of colloquial verse such as A Coney Island......

......absorbed the influence of the poets of the Golden Age and of the generation of García Lorca. His poetry, both tender and vigorous...death, and social injustice. His works include Cancionero y romancero de ausencias (1939; tr. Songbook of Absences, 1972......

......them The Fox's Paw (1912, tr. 1924), reveal ties with the Generation of '98. After 1916 his novels became increasingly mature...problems. To this period belongs his masterpiece, Belarmino y Apolonio (1921), a droll and profound story of two Oviedo......