Word: barcelona
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Architects Collaberative, Gropius' firm, commissioned Miro to do the painting a year ago. He replied last spring from Barcelona that he had started working on it. Nothing has been heard from Miro since late this fall...
...Barcelona-born, black-eyed Victoria got her first nod of approval from University of Barcelona professors. She was the daughter of a campus caretaker, and to the delight of the students and the annoyance of the teachers, her childish singing could be heard in the classrooms. But the professors recognized her talent, urged her to study at Barcelona's Conservatorio del Liceo. She did, for three years, then quit to work by herself. In 1947, assured by admirers that she could walk away with the first prize in Geneva's International Contest, she tried, and won the unanimous...
...March. Married to a onetime University of Barcelona law student who is now her personal manager, Victoria says she would really like just to "sit in our house in Barcelona." She has small chance. After a second Manhattan recital this month she will fly to Paris for a concert, then to London's Covent Garden to sing in Manon, La Bohème and Lohengrin, then on to La Scala...
James A. Farley, in Spain for his third visit since the war, had a 40-minute chat with Franco, failed to get official permission to enlarge his Barcelona Coca-Cola plant...
...beginning of the Spanish revolution in 1936, according to British Author John Langdon-Davies, the proletariat of Barcelona took to promenading hatless and tieless along the fashionable Rambla. In a ringing editorial, the syndicalist paper, Worker Solidarity, hailed this gesture of defiance of bourgeois convention. Then Worker Solidarity was faced with a storm of protest from the hat and necktie workers' unions. The paper abruptly reversed itself, came out for hats and ties on the Rambla...