Word: barcelona
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ambulances and private cars ferried maimed and disfigured victims for emergency treatment to Tarragona, Valencia and 120 miles northeast to Barcelona. West German and Swiss rescue planes were pressed into service to transport others to specialized burn centers in their home countries. But doctors predicted that most of the injured, burned over 90% of their bodies, could not survive...
...modernist culture in early 20th century Europe was not that of a capital surrounded by aesthetic provinces. It was more like a confederation: a scatter of nodes and local centers, engaged with one another and enjoying a persistent osmosis of ideas across the frontiers-Moscow, Berlin, Stockholm, Munich. Weimar, Barcelona, Vienna. Paris was uniquely hospitable to the avantgarde. But it had no monopoly on newness. The exhibition of 164 paintings and graphics that opened last week at Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art is a sharp reminder of that fact. Organized under the title "German and Austrian Expressionism...
...Madrid's Pastoral Institute and author of the 1976 book El Otro Jésus (The Other Jesus), told TIME that Jesus is "a man elected and sent by God, and has been constituted by God as the Son of God." At the Jesuit theological school in Barcelona, José Ignacio Gonzáles Faus insists that during his earthly life, Jesus was not aware of being God, and displayed such human traits as doubt and ignorance. Similar points are made by a German-trained Basque, Jon Sobrino, who has written the most thorough study of Christ...
...such novels as This Sunday and The Obscene Bird of Night (1973). He remains confidently cosmopolitan in his themes and techniques. Chilean by birth, the author was educated at Princeton, spent time as a writer in residence at the University of Iowa and currently lives on the outskirts of Barcelona, the setting for three eerie and witty novellas linked in Sacred Families...
Sylvia returns fully assembled in Gaspard de la Nuit as the mother of a lonely teen-age boy who wanders the streets of Barcelona whistling a complex piece by Ravel. Music is to young Mauricio what fashion is to Sylvia and what the perfect apartment is to Roberto and Marta: a way of erasing the outside world. It is also a way of severing Mauricio from his dull, affluent life. The tale ends with a prince-and-the-pauper twist, when he changes places with an urchin who is his double...