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...More Classic Italian Cooking (Knopf; 496 pages; $15), is as valuable as its predecessor. Scooping up irresistible formulations from palazzo, trattoria and country cottage, she makes available for the home cook another whole array of la buo-na cucina. Kazan's recipes for veal, in all its luscious Latin variations, are worth a book unto themselves. It so happens that Craig Claiborne and Pierre Franey of the New York Times have produced just such a volume, Veal Cookery (Harper & Row; 229 pages; $10). No meat is more succulent than the creamy pink flesh of milk-fed calf, whether married...
...diplomat; in Locarno, Switzerland. When King Alfonso XIII abdicated in 1931, Madariaga became the Spanish Republic's first Ambassador to the U.S. and its delegate to the League of Nations. After the Spanish Civil War, he became an energetic opponent of Franco, living in England, broadcasting to Latin America for the BBC, and working for various international organizations. All the while he poured out-in English, French and Spanish-a torrent of political books, literary essays, novels, poems, plays, histories and biographies. (His Bolivar dubbed the great liberator "a vulgar imitator of Napoleon.") In Anarchy or Hierarchy (1937), Madariaga...
...Music from England & Early America (The Boston Camerata, Joel Cohen director, Nonesuch). Charpentier: Messe de Minuit pour Noel; Senate a Six (The Boston Camerata, Joel Cohen director, Desmar). The album of folk-inspired Christmas music, a welcome change from today's homogenized carols, ranges from a 12th century Latin tune, Ad cantus leticie, to a rousing Gloucestershire Wassail from modern Britain. Marc-Antoine Charpentier's Mass, based on French Christmas carols, is a graceful work, and the voices of The Boston Camerata are perfectly balanced...
DIED. Robert C. Hill, 61, former U.S. Ambassador to Spain (1969-72) and four Latin American nations; of a heart attack; in Littleton, N.H. An executive with W.R. Grace & Co., Hill became the youngest ambassador in American history when he was appointed envoy to Costa Rica in 1953 at age 36. He was sent to El Salvador the following year and to Mexico City from 1957 to 1961. Returning to private business, he also served on the Republican National Committee's foreign policy task force, and was sent to Madrid when President Nixon took office. Hill was assigned...
Turner's statement is "very, very dangerous for people who rely on personal contacts for their research," Juan Marichal, professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and chairman of the Committee on Latin American Studies, said yesterday...