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...Start. In London, the New Statesman & Nation printed an ad: "Feeling fogbound? Stand at your window with a glass of Duff Gordon's El Cid Sherry. Watch the mist turn rosy...
What made Lorca change from his popular combinations of the old romantic meter (the lines and construction in his Romancero Gitano are very like EI Cid) with inflamed Gongorisms from the seventeenth century and scenes from contemporary Andalusian life was not the influence of Dali's artistic personality, nor the surrealist attempts of his not-so-friendly literary rival Rafael Alberti. We must recognize now with the settling effects of two decades since Lorca's death, that he took on this radically different form only as a means to express his similarly different subject matter. It should be apparent that...
Social Document. Writes Critic Bazin: "The Corneilleian simplicity of the western scenario has often been parodied. It is true that it is easy to detect an analogy to Le Cid: same conflict between love and duty, same knightly deeds, resulting in the virgin consenting to forget the insults to her family . . . But this comparison is ambiguous: to mock westerns by evoking Corneille is also to point out their grandeur, a grandeur perhaps close to puerility, even as childhood is close to poetry . . . Everyone, children and simple men, recognizes the naive grandeur of western movies. Epic and tragic heroes are universal...
...Castile is the country which gave Spain its greatest queen, Isabella, its ideal knight, the Cid, and its mystic saint, St. Theresa of Avila. Christopher Columbus died there, broken and disappointed. Castilians, who manage to scratch a living from the harsh earth, are a tough, grave and proud people. They speak the purest Spanish of Spain. The climate is "nine months of winter, three of hell." The land is a windswept steppe, almost a desert. "The most magnificent monotony in the whole world," says Sacheverell Sitwell. It has been said of Spain that it seems more a part of Africa...
...etchings traced the development of bullfighting from its beginnings among the ancient Spaniards who fought in the open country, through the heyday of such distinguished amateurs as the Cid and King Charles V, and up to Goya's own time. One of his best scenes from the early days of bullfighting shows a group of toreros harassing with spears and a primitive banderilla a defiant bull that has downed two of their number. Another dramatic moment is captured in Goya's picture of the death of Pepe Illo, a popular 18th century matador and friend of Goya...