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Kirkland House will sponsor a discussion group regarding "Practical Criticism" of poetry. A. Alvarez, visiting professor at Brandeis and poetry editor of the British magazine Observer, will lead the seminar. The House will also enlarge its program of natural science tutorials, which it began several years...
...Fernando Alvarez de Sotomayor, late director of Madrid's Prado: "Restoration is necessary. You have to do it with great care, but you have to do it. We can be proud of the work Spanish restorers do, but in most other European museums the work is not so good. For instance, I have been told of a Velasquez portrait of Philip IV in London's National Gallery which after restoration is a very bad picture. We have another Velasquez portrait of the same king, which originally was not so good as the one in London. Now ours...
Died. Fernando Alvarez de Sotomayor, 84, Spanish portrait painter (among his subjects: ex-King Alphonso XIII, Portugal's Dictator Salazar), who headed the famed Prado Museum from 1921 to 1936, was succeeded by Pablo Picasso during the civil war, regained the post after Franco's victory; of a heart attack; in Madrid...
...fearlessly criticized Castro, fled to Miami, broken by threats on his life and by the new right of newspaper employees to insert beneath articles critical of Castro the "clarification" that the workers consider the story untrue. Zayas said that the head of the newsmen's union. Baldomero Alvarez Rios, is a Communist. The Stolen Government Property Ministry thereupon seized Zayas' house and newspaper. Havana's other leading opposition newspaper Diario de la Marina, struggled on against "clarification"-sometimes running a story, followed by a compulsory "clarification," followed by an angry editorial protest to the "clarification," followed...
Grass Roots Sentiment. In Tampa, Fla., Francisco Alvarez was ordered by a court to get rid of his cow as a public nuisance, even though he produced three character witnesses who offered to testify to the cow's good behavior...