Word: dei
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...soloists, unfortunately, were considerably less impressive than the choir. Both women soloists sang with wobbly gusto, though none too steady in pitch. Tenor Gartside sounded forced and dry while bass Hester, the best of the four, masterfully sang his solo at the beginning of the Agnus Dei...
...chief casualty was Opus Dei, the politically oriented Catholic movement whose members can take much of the credit for modernizing Spain's economy. Carrero Blanco had fired all but one Opus Dei minister. Arias Navarro completed the process last week, replacing the one remaining representative of Opus Dei, Foreign Minister Laureano Lopez Rodó, with Spain's Ambassador to France, Pedro Cortina...
Franco's new regime effectively finishes Opus Dei as a power in Spanish politics, at least for the immediate future. It dashes the hopes of Opus Dei and Spain's newly emerging industrialists that their country will join the Common Market. The Market has demanded that Madrid meet certain "democratic conditions" before it can become a member-conditions that Franco and Arias firmly repudiated...
Tough on Gibraltar. With few exceptions, the new Cabinet members are notable more for their loyalty than for their innovative tendencies. Perhaps the ablest of the lot is López Rodó, 52, a devoted member of the political-religious organization Opus Dei, to which he contributes his income; he does not drink, hates to travel and resides in an Opus Dei dormitory. López Rodó served as Planning Minister from 1962 to this year, and is one of the men directly responsible for Spain's current economic boom. He is regarded as anti-British...
...influence. Carrero Blanco is believed to maintain an affection for veteran Falangists who fought long ago for Franco; he may well decide that it is time for them to be allowed to reassert themselves. Correspondingly, the power of technocrats affiliated with the modernist, religio-political movement known as Opus Dei might decline...