Word: barcelona
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...poet. Since his death his reputation has continued to grow. Like most reputations, it has an element of the factitious. Lorca took no part in the Spanish republican movement, far less in the revolutionary uprising of the Left. He resented the political demonstrations that were made in Barcelona in 1935 on the occasion of one of his plays. Inevitably, however, Lorca's assassination made him a hero and a martyr of the republic. Whether he knew it or not, he was an enemy of organized oppression and stupidity, and fittingly met his death at its hands...
...analysis of the news, CBS London then transfers its listeners to CBS Barcelona and Commentator Amerigo Vespucci. Comments Vespucci: "It is impossible to conceive the full significance of the news we have just heard. The land which Admiral Colón has just reached is Cibango, or the legendary island of Japan. . . . Shortly many will follow [him]. I will be among them...
...picture mixup, TIME'S apologies to Barcelona-born U.S. Citizen Jose C. Figuerola, resident of New York City since 1918, who served as ordnance adviser to the U.S. War Department in World Wars I & II. Engineer Figuerola is not to be confused with Barcelona-born Jose Figuerola (no kin) who is labor expert for Juan Peron...
This unusual film was made in and near Barcelona during the death agonies of the Loyalist cause. It was produced and directed by the famed French novelist and soldier, Andre Malraux, from episodes in his book of the same title. The film had to be smuggled into France, where post-Munich timidity prevented its release. Throughout the German occupation it was hidden. Malraux's first & only film, it places him-as readers might have guessed from the cinematic elements in his writing-among the few top movie talents...
...escorting the visiting Duchess of Atholl at the time), shocked and nauseated him. He could no longer deal coolly with the bureaucratic intrigues that entangled him. In early 1938, he got the Government's permission to leave Spain with his wife. They crossed the frontier from Barcelona to France, to live in poverty and write...