Word: barcelona
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Authorized by Le Corbusier and assembled exclusively from U. S. collections, the exhibition is presented in conjunction with a selection of photographic panels designed by the architect and executed at the Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos, Barcelona, Spain...
...Protest. Moore, 35, was a native of Binghamton, N.Y. He fought with the Marines on Guam during World War II, then embarked on an educational spree that took him to colleges in Southampton, Barcelona, Paris, Baltimore, and to Harpur College near Binghamton, where in 1952 he got a degree in social studies (B average). His pursuit of formal learning ended a year later when he was committed to Binghamton State Hospital as a schizophrenic. In a mental ward for 18 months, he wrote most of The Mind in Chains, later raised $3,500 to pay for its 1955 publication...
...strike was the latest and biggest in a wave of labor unrest that has swept Dictator Francisco Franco's Spain this spring. In Barcelona the Hispano Suiza airplane-engine plant recently laid off 150 employees following a series of work slowdowns, was forced to hire them back when j.ooo Olivetti factory employees threatened a sympathy walkout. Two sitdown strikes in a single week disrupted work in a Seville textile plant. Six hundred Madrid metalworkers have been threatening similar trouble after stubbornly refusing to sign a new contract...
...detective in Madrid when the Spanish Civil War broke out in 1936. But he was also a member of the Spanish Communist Party, and his professional police training soon landed him a key job in the Red apparatus. He became chief of "criminal investigations" for Madrid, Valencia and Barcelona, ferreting out supporters of Francisco Franco. Part of Grimau's job was to serve on kangaroo courts, called Chekas (after the onetime initials of the Soviet secret police), which ordered dozens of summary death sentences during the brutal three-year...
...greatness, Mr. Arkadin remains brilliant. The work is alternately baffling and lucid, and should be see. Welles is certainly one of the finest contemporary directors; his camera work makes the French "nouvelle vague" group look amateurish. One particularly effective scene shows the grandeur of a penitentes procession in Barcelona. The black-robed figures passing in torchlight surpass the processions in Ivan the Terrible, for Welles is always free of the episodic tableau photography that marred Eisenstein's films...