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...What some educated Spaniards would like, but few think is feasible, is the establishment of true political parties, one of which would share the philosophy of West Germany's moderate middle-class Christian Democrats. "We had no middle class in Spain before the war," says Barcelona Banker Ramon Trias Fargas. "But we have one now, and these people have no voice in politics-yet." Franco adamantly refuses to give them one. Only two months ago he rejected a proposal by moderate advisers that he allow a variety of nonradical political parties under the sheltering umbrella of the National Movement...
...Spain can afford to do without Europe. The nation that up to now has contributed mainly maids and labor and a place in the sun to the rest of the Continent desperately needs "the political education or background to know how to get what we want," as University of Barcelona Student Victoria Gaya puts...
...last April at the Swiss Credit Bank in the name of "H.R. Hughes" by a slim, attractive blonde woman, 42 years old, 5½ ft. tall, weighing 100 lbs., who spoke English and very bad German. She carried a Swiss passport issued in 1969 by the Swiss consul in Barcelona, Spain. It identified her as "Helga R. Hughes." To open the account, the woman signed "H.R. Hughes" on a signature card. A bank officer compared the writing with her passport signature. The two seemed to match, and the woman deposited 1,000 French francs ($180) to open the account. Interestingly...
Inflated Blues. Picasso's immature work has benefited greatly from hindsight and feedback. The slides flick, the familiar images succeed one another-the young painter chewing his way through Toulouse-Lautrec, Manet, Gauguin, Munch, Steinlen and a host of other influences that crowded upon him in Barcelona and, after 1900, in Paris. There is no consolidated style in Picasso's career until, aged 21, he starts moving into the Blue and Pink periods...
...Cubist structure of a 1912 still life have none with the consumptive laundresses, wistful acrobats and delicately shaded cripples who populate Picasso's canvases between 1902 and 1906. On one level, they record his experience of the miserable and dehumanizing poverty that lay around him in Paris and Barcelona; on another, the beggar-as-outcast is equated with the artist-as-outsider...