Word: madrid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that thoughtful and compassionate Spanish writers take a grim view of life. In The Hive (TIME, Oct. 5), Camilo José Cela highlighted the plight of poverty-stricken Madrileños. In The Final Hours, José Suárez Carreño, 39, portrays the night life of Madrid and offers a world where love is impossible and the human condition hopeless...
...night wears on, Manolo circulates around Madrid, seeing the people of his world: beggars, thieves, drunkards, street vendors. For them the naked problem of life is survival; the eternal lesson: "All of us are like beasts . . . because nobody loves anybody; because between men there isn't anything but deception, hate and suffering." For Carmen and the wealthy Angel Aguado, who spend the night going from bar to bar together, the problem is different. Aguado's case is insoluble, since his sickness consists in being a man incapable of functioning as a man. Unlike Aguado, who torments himself, Carmen...
...courts in West Germany, was struck a mortal diplomatic blow, sure to budge him from the bench. Vacationing in the Canary Islands, Clark, who had vowed he would sit tight even though his commission expires this month, was suddenly telephoned by Robert D. Hale, U.S. Consul General in Madrid. The threat, on Washington's orders: Clark had to hand in his diplomatic passport or face arrest for his obstinacy. He capitulated, gave Hale the credentials, got in return a new passport, which will expire Jan. 28. In an outraged huff, Clark announced that he would soon sail...
Jenaro Riestra. the civil governor of the Spanish port of Bilbao, was summoned to Madrid last week, there got orders to settle the strike that had cut back production at the Euskalduna works, one of his city's biggest steel plants (TIME, Dec.14). Though newspapers printed no word of the strike and mail from Bilbao was interrupted, the news of Bilbao's woe was spreading by word of mouth. Madrid wanted a settlement, quickly and in silence, before other Spanish workers decided to join...
Governor: "You had better. Madrid orders it. If you don't, I'll withdraw the police protecting your plant. That might prove unpleasant...