Word: madrid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Spain is a clerical state which maintains a Protestant ghetto." Mackay, who studied in Madrid in 1915-16 and speaks Spanish fluently, found Spain "worse than I had imagined . . . The peace that prevailed was the peace of the sepulchre." More than at any time since the 16th Century, there is "that terrible concept of Spanish unity . . . which equates Spanish nationality with adhesion to the Roman Catholic Church and makes the state the tool of the church's will." Spain's 20,000 Protestants are virtually isolated from normal life: according to Mackay, they may not mark their churches...
...name of Pablo Picasso has been officially anathema in his native Spain ever since Franco. Last week it fluttered through the conversation of Madrid's arty set as persistently as one of the master's mechanical Communist peace doves. While suspicious plainclothesmen strained to detect something subversive in the highbrow cafe controversies, the government wondered how to suppress Spain's liveliest and most political art wrangle in 15 years...
...fuss was kicked up in the first place by Jesus de Perceval, a sleepy-eyed but ambitious young painter from Almeria. Last month, at the opening of Madrid's Hispano-American Art Biennale, Perceval drew the critics' praise for his Beheading of the Innocents, a large Renaissance-style canvas with eclectically costumed figures, including Roman soldiers, Andalusian mothers and a sky full of angels and DC-6s. The artist was personally congratulated by Franco himself...
...crest of the controversy, Surrealist Dali bounced into Madrid with a prepared lecture on "Picasso and I." Crowds greeted him with shouts of "Viva Picasso!" Spoke Dali: "There is no difference between Picasso and myself as men. We are both painters, both Spaniards, both geniuses...
...deal is similar to the one Hilton made with the Puerto Rican government two years ago (TIME, Dec. 12, 1949) on the Caribe Hilton, which has paid off handsomely. Under similar arrangements, Hilton will open a new hotel in Madrid next summer, expects to open the Cavalieri Hilton in Rome a year from then and hopes also to put one up in London...