Word: madrid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year ago, Luisa María wrote to Pretender Don Juan, urging him to land on the sea coast of northwestern Spain and march on Madrid: "My Lord, Napoleon's march from Antibes to Paris will look like a Boy Scout parade compared to your triumphant and bloodless march through Spain . . . Not one person will stand in your way. My Lord, your moment has come. Spain is waiting . . ." Even the country's most ardent male monarchists were appalled. Said one: "Luckily it was a letter and not a plea supported by her presence and personality that reached...
...such things any more, restless Luisa María finds herself dissatisfied by the state of her wardrobe. She asked the Franco authorities for a passport, saying she wanted to go to Paris and "buy a few dresses." She tried to help her cause by making the rounds of Madrid's gay spots with the pudgy dictator's pudgy, pleasure-loving brother, Nicolás Franco, who is Ambassador to Portugal. But within a few days of the Duchess' request for a passport, police were quick to note, a letter from Don Juan reached Francisco Franco asking...
Soriano travels about 100,000 miles a year, has big, comfortable homes in Manila, Madrid, Southern France and Manhattan. In his world-girdling trips, he keeps a sharp eye open for new businesses. Says Soriano: "I'm neither an introvert, a handshaker nor a patter on the back. If there's anything I enjoy doing, it's planning big industries. I get a kick...
Part of the work was shown at the Vatican itself last summer (TIME, Aug. 14) and caused no such furor. But in the three weeks since Academician d'Ors' exit, Madrid's art critics and Catholic intellectuals have loudly locked horns over the propriety, if not the morality, of the whole idea...
...column in Madrid's Arriba, Critic d'Ors led off for the conservatives: "How can we conceive of Jesus disguised as a sannyasi floating on a lotus lily, symbolizing renunciation of the world He came to save?...or the Conception as an almond-eyed beauty scantily clad in a sari?...The Church universally is based on unity of language, prayer and iconography...