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...decided that Campalans would be a Catalan born in 1886, the fifth son of a peasant family. Adding details, he had "J.T.C." run away from home, pursue an actress to Barcelona, meet Picasso, invent Cubism ("It's simple. Before, pictures were seen from the outside: now they are seen from the inside"), explore Abstractionism, then abruptly disappear from Paris in August...
...journey to Bethlehem and ending with the arrival of the kings and a final hosanna of thanksgiving. More operatic than oratorio-like in style, the work opened with a skirl of oboes and the beating of a high-pitched hand drum, developed its theme in a flow of Catalan folk-flavored melody, interspersed with grandiose choral effects and rich orchestral passages that sounded like amplifications of Casals' own famed cello tone. High points were an impressionistic dialogue between oboes and clarinets, which suggested the mystery of the birth, and the bright, triumphant closing canticle, which employed the full...
...accounts for the popularity of the corrida has had its effect on the nation's literature. The result is that Spain's fictional heroines suffer at least as much wear and tear as her fighting bulls. When the reader meets pretty, pregnant, unmarried Eulalia trudging toward the Catalan fishing village that cast her out months before, the outcome of Author Salisachs' novel is not hard to predict. Sure enough, 300 pages later the tarnished maiden lies dead from loss of blood in a seaside cave, her squalling love child beside her. The man she adored vainly...
Unsung Milton. Life for the 50 Cistercians at Poblet last week was one of winter's cold, cold joys. In rooms where the temperature averaged about 40° F., they devoted almost all their labors to the printing of books in Latin, Castilian and Catalan. Their printing equipment was up to the minute, but the only stove stood glowing in the doorkeeper's lodge. To that lodge came now and again a flint-faced, intensely devout blacksmith from the neighboring hamlet of Espluga de Francoli...
...Galinsoga learned that he had been fired as boss of Spain's leading newspaper. It had taken a decision of the Franco Cabinet to oust Galinsoga. That decision came almost eight months after Galician Galinsoga, an old Franco friend, had shouted insulting remarks about proud Catalonia after hearing Catalan spoken in a Barcelona Catholic Church sermon. In reprisal, Catalans had boycotted La Vanguardia, cutting its circulation by some 20% and causing advertising losses that reduced the paper's size from an average 55 pages to 28. What most worried the Franco Cabinet was that the Catalan boycott...