Word: fiestas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...emphasis at the Fiesta was on life. Alex Cvijanovic, a Principal of Architects Collaborative, the firm Gropius founder after retiring from Harvard, read from Gropius' testament...
...would be beautiful if all my friends of the present and of the past would get together in a little while for a fiesta--a la Bauhaus--drinking, laughing, loving...
Following his own request that "all my friends of the present and of the past would get together in a little while for a fiesta--a la Bauhaus, " woo of those close friends gathered at the offices of Architects Collaborative in Cambridge yesterday afternoon. The man they met to remember--for they did not meet "To commemorate" and certainly not "to mourn"--was Walter A. Gropius, head of the Department of Architecture at the Graduate School of Design from...
...picturesque [meaning rowdy bullfights in little fiesta towns] is for when you are young, or if you are a little drunk so that it will all seem real, or if you never grow up, or if you have a girl with you who has never seen it, or for once in a season, or for those who like it. But if you really want to learn about bullfighting, or if you ever get to feel strongly about it, sooner or later you will have to go to Madrid...
...inevitable, you see, Papa, has finally overtaken the fiesta nacional. You and Sidney Franklin and the other gringos were always so mesmerized by the mystique of blood and sand that you ignored what Spaniards understood: above all else, bullfighting is box office. For a time in Spain's new and vigorous consumer society, the box office was busier than ever. With 20 million foreign tourists a year and television beaming corridas to as many as 15 million more people (instead of the mere 23,663 that can shoehorn into the Plaza Monumental), the bullfights have become a $25 million...