Word: barcelona
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...centuries to heal, the hardy culture that grew from conflict has proved endlessly enriching. The taste for decorative, geometric art is still shown in Spain's intricate metalwork and cabinetry. The turn-of-the-century architect, Antoni Gaudi, resorted in his unfinished Church of the Holy Family in Barcelona to restless linear rhythms that recall the Moorish Alhambra. Andalusian laments still recall an Arab origin, and even the haunting cries of flamenco suit a caliph better than a king...
Into the dusty little town of Prades, on the slopes of the French Pyrenees, chugged two busloads of string players from Barcelona. Stopping at a small villa where Cellist Pablo Casals is staying, the musicians unlimbered their fiddles and serenaded the master with Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik. Then, one by one, they embraced Casals and boarded the buses for the return trip...
...famous bullfighter. Although the outward circumstances of his life seem to change for the better, Rosi continually insinuates that they don't. The impressario who grabs a fat chunk of Miguelin's salary as a matador closely resembles the labor contractor he worked for in the slums of Barcelona. Similarly, whores with diamond earrings are no different from the 100 pesatas per night girls he met while still a dock worker. Rosi carries these parallels to extremes; even the jet-set types at elegant after-parties wolf their food the same way Miguelin's boorish father did on the farm...
Once a staid citadel of baroque piety, the church in Spain has been torn by shock after shock since police attacked a group of picketing priests in Barcelona last May. Four Catholic publications have defied the hierarchy's wishes by referring to the incident-and three of them were promptly banned by nervous government censors. Last month, after leaders of the 200,000-member Catholic Action approved a resolution calling for separation of church and state, the bishops denounced the statement as being too political in intent, then banned all future meetings of the organization...
...almost equally restive, in search of change and experiment. In San Sebastian, for example, after students for the priesthood refused to attend certain spiritual exercises at the diocesan seminary, Bishop Lorenzo Bereciaurta closed down its theological department and expelled five of the rebels. And in a suburb of troublesome Barcelona last week, five priests opened a motorcycle repair shop in a slum, boldly announcing that they intended to become "worker priests...