Word: andalusian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Their paths cross along the road, where he fixes her car; again at the border, where she slips the pearls into his pocket to get past the customs inspectors; once more in Madrid, where she joins her oily confederate (John Halliday). When the three are sequestered together in an Andalusian mountain inn, the flirtation between Bradley and Madeleine suddenly ripens into something else, something which Director Frank Borzage contrives to convey in scenes which are at once gay, delicate and, in view of the cinema's attitude toward such matters since the Legion of Decency started to operate...
...years was swelling last week into horrid crescendos of threatened social upheaval, secession and civil war. Overnight 30,000 political prisoners came bustling out of jail. They included the furious Catalonian secessionist, "President" Luis Companys, who had just begun to serve a 30-year stretch in a grim Andalusian prison for having proclaimed the industrial northeast of Spain the independent Republic of Catalonia (TIME, Oct. 15, 1934). Out of jail popped most of this suppressed Republic's Parliament and met in Barcelona, their capital. In Madrid more or less delirious Spanish mobsters and political ex-convicts paraded around, brandishing...
...Minor Bach Pastoral Symphony Handel Salutation Invocation O Who Like Me Bach On Christmas Night Old English--arranged by Vaughn Williams The Hunter Brahms Scripture Luke II, 1-19 Carol of the Flowers Red God Rest You Merry Gentlemen Old English Bethlehem Glatz Folk Song Hymn by Congregation Pampanites Andalusian Folk Song Salvation Is Created Tschesnokoff Three Kings Cornelius Deck the Halls Old English Organ Postlude: Hallelujah Chorus Handel
...that even the men who filed the cables grew bored with them. Week after week, month after month they had sent out the same stories: General strike threat. . . . Syndicalists riot in Barcelona. . . . Alfonso denies responsibility. . . . Fall of Government imminent. . . . Street fighting in Asturias and the Basque provinces. . . . Andalusian peasants rebel. . . . Generals arrested. . . . State of alarm declared. . . . State of alarm lifted. . . . All these things were true but the average Spaniard took his daily siesta, went to the bullfight every Sunday, ate a seven-course dinner at 10:30 at night...
...Century. Believing that the past could offer more pungent novelties he studied tirelessly, rediscovered the formal counterpoint and chromatic modulations of the Renaissance. Deciphering manuscripts of Perotin le Grand (circa 1200) revealed a forgotten treasure of intricately constructed works. Moroccan musicians in 1929 taught Dolmetsch the secrets of traditional Andalusian music which influenced 11th and 12th Century European composers...