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Word: madrid (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wanted to traipse through Madrid making speeches against Franco would find it much different from trying to traipse through Moscow making speeches against Stalin...

Author: By Milton S. Gwirtzman, | Title: The Conservative Mind | 5/5/1955 | See Source »

...first to the Louvre, which turned it down, then to a Paris art dealer. Last year Chicago Art Institute Director Daniel Catton Rich saw a photograph of the disputed masterpiece. He cabled a colleague to check the original, and the painting was finally authenticated by experts in Barcelona and Madrid. Last week The Crucifixion hung in the Chicago Institute's Spanish Gallery with the institute's other two Zurbarans. Said Director Rich with understandable satisfaction: "In my opinion, it is one of the greatest paintings by Zurbaran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Found & Lost | 4/4/1955 | See Source »

...Magnificent!" exclaimed the critics. "Spain has never seen anything like this." Spain had not. While bullfight tickets went begging, the carriage trade last week was paying up to five times the normal price to squeeze into Madrid's musty old Teatro de la Zarzuela and see the greatest hit in Spanish theatrical history. The hit: Al Sur del Pacifico. Translation: South Pacific...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old Musical in Madrid | 3/28/1955 | See Source »

...Some of Madrid's changes were definitely for the worse. Offstage noises were technically poor; e.g., the departure of a jeep sounded more like the idling of a Flying Boxcar. Famed Mexican-born Actor Gustavo Rojo, as Lieut. Cable, was politely proper in his love scene with Liat (Maria Rey). And the lonely sailors were so surprisingly paired off with girls that the stage was cluttered with shapely dancers not quite sure of what they were there for. They were there because the censor ruled that a disproportionate number of men to women on stage smacked of homosexualism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old Musical in Madrid | 3/28/1955 | See Source »

...dictatorship came from "left-wingers" and "pinkos." Last month, when Fulton Lewis got ready for his first visit to Spain, he looked forward to a royal welcome and an exclusive interview with Franco. He was not disappointed by the welcome. The day before his arrival last week, Madrid's daily Ya said: "Fulton Lewis, the succinct and factual American journalist, tomorrow arrives in Madrid . . . If you encounter him in your walks you should take off your hat to him. There are not many newspapermen in the world who merit more this unique and supreme gesture of Spanish courtesy." Next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Royal Welcome | 3/21/1955 | See Source »

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