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Spanish Mother: GRECO, grek'o, Jose (1918- ), American dancer and choreographer, who was the most successful Spanish dancer of his time. He was born Costanzo Greco on Dec. 23, 1918, in Montorio nei Frentani, Italy, to an Italian father and a Spanish mother. When he was 10 the family moved to Brooklyn, N. Y., and Greco acquired American citizenship. His first professional appearance was in an incidental dance in the opera Carmen in New York in 1937.
Spanish conquests were extended throughout South America and the Caribbean area, parts of North America, and even into the Pacific in the 16th and 17th centuries. The development of shipping made possible these explorations and the degree of trade communication that was established between the mother country and the colonies. The empire was destined to disintegrate, however, perhaps largely because of the failure of Spain to consolidate her colonies into an effective empire economy and to extend the benefits of the mother country's civilization to them.
This competitive excess created a style that became known as "yellow journalism." Both men seized on the Cuban revolt of 1895 to vie with inflated accounts of Spanish "atrocities," arousing public indignation and helping to bring on the Spanish-American War. Yet both so ably exposed political jobbery and social injustice that they hastened reform. Hearst spent $8 million of his widowed mother's fortune before he "turned the corner" and made a profit in New York. |
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