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...more than competitors United and American for kerosene to operate its fleet of 230 jets. Early this year, in a swap with Pan Am, TWA surrendered all of its Pacific routes in return for a handful of new routes to Southern Europe, two of which (to Nice and Barcelona) TWA has so far elected not to fly. Meanwhile, the recession has reduced the number of filled seats on the airline's flights so far this year to a disappointing...
Spain attracted men like George Orwell. In Homage to Catalonia Orwell writes of his ecstasy on entering Barcelona in the early days of the war. The city was then controlled by the Anarchists, who set on instituting socialist revolution simultaneously with waging the war against Franco. Leaving behind the stultifying atmosphere of England's rigidly stratified society, Orwell exulted in the vitality of Barcelona's blossoming egalitarianism, in the salutations of "Comrade" to strangers and the notices in barber shops proclaiming that barbers were no longer "slaves." In one of his finest passages Orwell describes his flash encounter with...
...parading on the screen before his elite troops is the selfsame man who for 35 years has ruled the Spanish people with an oppressive iron hand. Decades after the fall of Mussolini and the demise of Hitler, Franco maintains a reign of terror in Madrid and Barcelona, throughout Aragon and Castile, over the sons and daughters of the Loyalist soldiers who lay buried in unmarked graves in the Spanish countryside...
...hero is killed, in the other we lose our pants. Yet, in spite of ourselves, the dreams continue, and, as the end of the Franco era hastens, we catch the stronger strains of a guitar and glimpse smiles on the faces of the children who crowd the streets of Barcelona. Spanish history is stained with rivers of blood, remaining true to the vision of Goya's drawings of a haunted people. Yet still we wait, and hope against hope for the Spain of Orwell's Italian militiaman, of Hemingway's Idaho schoolteacher, of the Spanish workers raising their fists into...
...flatness of Miró's pictures begins in the formalized Romanesque murals he saw as a child in the museums and churches round Barcelona. His drawing, too, is in Catalan. It stems from art nouveau, the civic style of turn-of-the-century Barcelona, whose façades and courtyards Architect Antoni Gaudi (1852-1926) and his disciples encrusted with an exuberant riot of decorative line. In Gaudi's hands, art nouveau took on a tumid, visceral energy that no other European architect could manage...