Word: brava
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Spain, Austria and Greece are trumpeting their bargain-rate attractions. On Spain's craggy, eastern Costa Brava, hotel and cottage prices have zoomed 1,000% since 1950, but a fisherman's seaside cottage still rents for $70 a month. In Austria, pensions are charging as little as $3.30 a day with three meals. In Athens, an air-conditioned deluxe hotel room with bath and breakfast costs $7. For tourists who seek to savor the Continent's off-the-beaten-path charms, Greek villagers rent out clean rooms, are reluctant to take payment from foreigners. No nation will...
...depends on hints or suggestions rather than definite, clear-cut statements. Most so-called cool jazz seems to have evolved from music played in low ranges−trombones, tenor and baritone saxophones." Clarinetist Shaw is currently living in Spain, building himself a huge stone mansion on the Costa Brava, and talking about retiring to live...
...when Ralph Reed persuaded the Spanish government to join American Express in a travel promotion program that touched off Spain's tourist boom. Palma de Majorca, in the Balearic Islands, is still the top tourist attraction, but the coves of Spain's Costa Brava and Malaga's sandy beaches will pull thousands of American sun worshipers...
...first act of the Metropolitan Opera's new Don Pasquale, Baritone Frank Guarrera peeks behind a screen where Coloratura Roberta Peters is making an onstage costume change. "Brava," he sings with a leer. "Brava, brava!" That sentiment might well serve as comment on the whole production. Peters & Co. have turned Gaetano Donizetti's old (1843) comic opera into something to cheer about...
...Norman Lewis (249 pp.; Rinehart; $3), brilliantly tells about a war of nerves in a Spanish village on the Costa Brava 16 years after the end of Spain's civil war. Its central character is Sebastian Costa, a fisherman who was unwillingly conscripted into the Franco army and decorated for an act of bravery he did not really perform. The village Republicans, who have neither forgiven nor forgotten the war, still subject Costa to a cold, polite but unrelenting boycott. When someone betrays a Republican agent sent from France, the village instantly, and without a hearing, condemns Costa...