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...people of Andorra do not speak Spanish [Oct. 5]. They speak Catalan, which is . . . one of the eight Romance languages, like Italian or French. Andorra belongs to the Catalan area and both the French and Spanish neighbors of that little country have the Catalan language for their mother tongue. GEORGE C. ENGERRAND University of Texas Austin...
...Catalan is indeed a separate language, spoken by 4,300,000 people in the Balearic Islands, Valencia, and Spanish Catalonia, as well as in Andorra. Expatriate Catalans are so proud of their native tongue and literature that they still give prizes for literary and poetic contests, called Joes Florals de la Llengua Catalana...
...There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature," Antonio Gaudi used to say. "Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners." In the application of his precept, Catalan Architect Gaudi built some of the most fantastic structures in the world. The walls of a Gaudi designed apartment house rise like eroded cliffs; his roofs are undulating, and wrought-iron leaves bristle from his eaves and sills...
Segovia is beginning a tour that will take him to Belgium, The Netherlands, England, Switzerland, Italy and the U.S. before he returns to his present home in Montevideo. Like his compatriot, Catalan Cellist Pablo Casals, he has not returned to Spain since the civil war of the '30s. Still practicing from five to six hours a day, self-taught Andrés Segovia often permits himself a restrained self-compliment: "The teacher is satisfied with his pupil...
...eleven years, world-famed Catalan Cellist Casals has lived his life of simple but defiant exile in Prades. When he came to Prades, it was with a vow that he would never play again in his native Spain so long as Dictator Francisco Franco was in power. Then, soon after World War II, he decided not to play any more in public...