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Total Effort. Opus Dei (official title: Sociedad Sacerdotal de la Santa Cruz y del Opus Dei) was founded in Madrid on Oct. 2, 1928. The founder was a young Marist priest, José María Escrivá de Balaguer, whose aim was to tie the struggle for spiritual perfection to the struggle for professional perfection in the modern world. Instead of retiring into monasteries, he felt, men with a secular calling as well as a sacred one should be able to follow both at once. The solution: in addition to vows of poverty, chastity and obedience, a man pledges...
There is a story told in Madrid about the time General Franco entered a jewelry store to buy a diamond necklace for his daughter Carmencita and found himself without the necessary cash. "But I am Franco, head of the Spanish state!" he said. "Then, naturally, you have identity papers," replied the skeptical storekeeper. But Franco had come without identity papers. "Then, perhaps you could give us some other proof," said the shopkeeper. "For example, the celebrated bullfighter Dominguin was here last week in the same predicament, and when we asked him for proof, he took a cape and made...
...Waltz of the Toreadors is an import from London, not Madrid. (The Spanish know better.) There is a lot of frank talk about sex, at the Colonial...
...trace of it was lost. In time the currents of taste turned against El Greco. The Santo Domingo Adoration was allowed to become so begrimed under centuries of neglect that few art historians noted or reproduced it. Last year the church, hard up to finance repairs, sold it to Madrid's Prado for $55,000. It took the Prado's experts nine months to clean and restore it. Today, the Adoration hangs in a place of honor in one of the Prado's newly inaugurated salons, fresh with all the unearthly radiance and splendor that El Greco...
What he saw in Madrid could only be wondered at--a girl practicing her piano the morning after a shell had passed through her house taking with it part of the living room wall and the top corner of the piano. "The will to live and laugh in this city of over a million people under fire, each person in constant danger, was to me a source of amazement." Langston Hughes is that kind of traveller who seeks after little, and, so, discovers much to wonder...