Word: madrid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...toreros harassing with spears and a primitive banderilla a defiant bull that has downed two of their number. Another dramatic moment is captured in Goya's picture of the death of Pepe Illo, a popular 18th century matador and friend of Goya, who was killed in the Madrid bull ring in May 1801. Goya pictures Illo down before the bull, his hands grasping feebly at the tearing horns. In this, as in all the etchings, Goya seemed to stop the action with a camera's precision in its most exciting fraction of a second...
...Spain, Vitoria's 5,000 workers stayed quietly at home for five days. They did not riot in the streets or break windows, as some in other places had done. The trouble had not even started in Basque country, but in Catalan Barcelona. But when the Madrid authorities began looking for scapegoats, their angry eyes fell on Vitoria, where there are plenty of men with records as Basque separatists, and members of the outlawed Catholic labor organization. So Francisco Franco's cops arrested...
...Before God . . ." There was no evidence. The case made little progress. Fifteen of the accused were released on parole. Madrid tried to get the army to court-martial the men, but the military shied away. "Basque separatism," said one officer, "is not a tangible, clandestine organization. It is a state of mind. You cannot court-martial a state of mind...
Jordá's performances have created excitement wherever he has appeared, but much of his career has been off the musical main stem. He was born in the Basque city of San Sebastian, and after studies in Paris became the youthful conductor of the Madrid Symphony (1940-45). In 1947 he moved to South Africa to be conductor of the Cape Town Orchestra. Except for a guest stint in Buenos Aires in 1944, San Francisco was his first stop in the Western Hemisphere...
Last week Arriba, Madrid's official Falange newspaper, absolved Ataulfo, expressed satisfaction that "we are able to remain Ataulfo's friends and comrades...