Word: arturo
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Next morning they learned that they had been found guilty, without trial, of inciting to riot and violating public order. They had been sentenced by the police of Station 22 to 30 days' imprisonment. Protesting, they were led into the office of Federal Police Chief Arturo Bertollo. Smilingly he offered two choices: appeal the verdict, meanwhile staying in jail, or sign a paper on his desk and receive in return a presidential pardon, which he was empowered to issue forthwith. The paper was a statement acknowledging the accusation but not their guilt. Shea and McCombe signed. Then, with Juan...
Montemezzi: L'Amore del Tre Re (Sesto Bruscantini, bass; Renato Ca-pecchi, baritone; Amedeo Berdini, tenor; Clara Petrella, soprano; Aldo Bertocci, tenor; orchestra and chorus of Radio Italiana, Arturo Basile conducting; Cetra-Soria, 4 sides LP). A powerful and passionate performance of Montemezzi's opera about a blind king who throttles his adulterous daughter-in-law. Chiefly remarkable for the beautiful bass singing of the king (Bruscantini). Recording: good...
...finest autobiographies of the '40s was Spaniard Arturo Barea's The Forging of a Rebel (TIME...
...businessman and a Loyalist, got out of Spain in 1938. He now lives and writes in England, where, since 1940 and under the name of Juan de Catilla, he has been BBC's Latin American commentator. In The Broken Root, his first novel, a man very much like Arturo Barea goes back to Spain for a visit after a ten-year absence in England...
...Arturo Barea is not continuing his own story this time; he has never returned to Spain. He collected material for his novel from others who did. Perhaps for this reason, The Broken Root is more effective as a report than as a novel. Like many another intellectual turned novelist, Author Barea becomes so intent on making his point that he pushes his people around until coincidence swamps art and life together. But he does make his point, and a grim...