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...TARANTOS. With mingled dance and drama and burning Iberian intensity, Spanish Director Rovira-Beleta tells the story of a gypsy Romeo and Juliet...
...TARANTOS. With mingled dance and drama and burning Iberian intensity, Spanish Director Rovira-Beleta tells the story of a gypsy Romeo and Juliet...
When on April 1, 1939 the beleagured remnants of the Spanish Republican Army gave up their arms, the Iberian peninsula saw the end of the only constitutionally elected government in its history. The two and a half year war that had brought down the Republic cost over a million Spanish lives. This month, all over Spain, church bells are ringing at regular intervals to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the war's end. Somber and funereal, the bells suggest the ambivalence that lingers in many Spanish minds on the subject...
Salazar's old Iberian neighbor and amigo, Spain's Francisco Franco, was bending slightly more with the winds, announced plans to grant a measure of autonomy to Spanish Guinea, which is made up of the "provinces" of Rio Muni, a Maryland-sized West African enclave lying between Gabon and Cameroon, and the adjacent islands of Fernando Po and Annobón. The colony's 225,000 Africans, who harvest its coffee, cocoa beans and timber, and 5,000 Europeans will be encouraged to elect a rubber-stamp Parliament loyal to El Caudillo...
Reid admits that it was a cursory turning of life which bound him up with the Iberian peninsula. He spent his childhood and youth on Arran, an island off the western coast of Scotland. After World War II years in the East Indies, where he served "in what we call the Royal Navy," he returned to Scotland and entered the University of St. Andrew's. Then, after a number of years in France, he came to the United States, where he taught "off and on" at Sarah Lawrence. He first went to Spain in 1952, primarily to find...