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...months Diario and Editor Jose Ignacio Rivero, 39, had been living on borrowed time as they blasted Castro's arbitrary rent reductions, his agrarian farm laws ("Hundreds of people have had their property taken away without compensation"), his flirtation with Communism. Boldly the newspaper spoke out for "democratic normalcy and the law. Is this a crime? Is it immoral? Are there not a lot of Cuban people who want the same?" Castro tolerated such impudence only because Diario was considered the unofficial spokesman for the Roman Catholic Church in Cuba and because it furnished proof to "Yankee imperialists" that...
Died. Rafael Ignacio Arias Blanco, 53, plump, popular Roman Catholic Archbishop of Caracas, whose pastoral letter (1957), indicting Dictator Perez Jimenez for failing to relieve Venezuela's impoverished masses, triggered the opposition groups into action that toppled the dictator; in an auto accident; near Barcelona, Venezuela...
...Ignacio Zuloaga, the greatest Spanish painter of the recent past (one of whose El Grecos has recently gone to the Metropolitan Museum), was my godfather. Zuloaga was aware of the existence of the word "Solo" traced in the sand at the feet of the duchess, which has again come to light with the cleaning of the portrait. His interpretation of the word was "alone" or "lonely"-Lonely Goya-which would indicate the contrary of what the "experts" strive to prove with their translation "only" (which is, customarily, solamente...
...operation costs. From Tuesday through Sunday this week, the Met proudly displayed its latest major acquisition, proving that it suffers no lack of purchase funds. The well-nigh priceless St. John's Vision (see color), by El Greco, was bought from the estate of Spanish Painter-Collector Ignacio Zuloaga. And although Director James Rorimer kept the price to himself, he called the canvas one of the 20 most important purchases in the Metropolitan's history...
...choreographer, who with Charles Weidman formed her own school and company in 1928 (opening what New York Times Critic John Martin soon called "a new chapter in American dancing"), creator of such modern dance masterpieces as The Shakers, With My Red Fires and (for Jose Limon) Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias; of cancer; in Manhattan. Her active career was stopped by crippling arthritis in 1945, but Doris Humphrey went on teaching, organized the Juilliard Dance Theater in 1954. After ten years of preparation, Doris Humphrey's Guggenheim-financed book, The Art of Making Dances, is on Rinehart...