Word: francos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...independent community from the Atlantic to the Urals begins with independence at home, sets out next week on another apostolic mission, this time to Latin America, to preach the gospel of a French-led choice for smaller nations between the two superpowers. Frustrated in his efforts to use the Franco-German treaty to advance the hegemony of France in Europe, he too shows signs of restiveness, turning away from the Germans toward London...
...Franco Marinotti, president of Milan's SNIA Viscosa and an old hand at bargaining with Russians, has his own rule of thumb: speak fluent Russian, offer long-term credit and toss down vodka like a Russian. He does all three...
...beginning, Soprano Leontyne Price sounds outsized, more like Lilith than a simple gypsy, but the opera soon rises to her voltage. Tenor Franco Corelli manages a convincing disintegration as Don Jose, and Baritone Robert Merrill's Escamillo exudes male vanity. Mirella Freni makes a sweet-voiced Micaela. Conductor Herbert von Karajan colors the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra sensuously, generally keeping the tempos down and the temperature up; the smugglers' quintet reaches a high pitch of excitement...
Embarrassing Support. Tàpies, now 40, and many others have since lived with a government that likes them more than they wish to be liked. They prosper in embarrassment; the freedom that they insisted upon is suddenly an asset to Franco. This uneasy partnership makes for strange ironies. When the government four months ago sent a striking show of new painting to the Spanish pavilion at the World's Fair, Tàpies and one of his top followers, Modest Cuixart, would not let their work be included - even though Picasso, out of a growing nostalgia for Spain...
...others contributed to a rump show of modern Spanish work now on at Rimini, in Italy. And the master Picasso, just to prove that he cannot be brought into camp, specifically chose for the Rimini show a 1937 surrealist condemnation of Spanish fascism called Dreams and Lies of Franco...