Word: madrid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...glimpse of a fresher trend in Spanish painting, the work of a stay-at-home named Benjamin Palencia. Palencia's boldly colored, unsophisticated commentaries on Spanish country life were neither hidebound nor self-consciously revolutionary. This spring when Palencia, now 50, had a one-man show at Madrid's Museum of Modern Art, critics boasted: "Spain has a great new painter . . . the richest temperament since Goya...
...famous travels. At nine, Palencia's sketches of animals and lively peasant fiestas caught the eye of Don Rafael López Egoniz, a well-to-do Spanish engineer and art collector. He persuaded Benjamin's parents to let him take the youngster back to Madrid as his ward. There he set the boy to studying the great Spanish masters, but carefully kept him out of Madrid's traditionalist art schools. Later, he took him on a three-year tour of Europe, introduced him to Paris' heady artistic life. Unlike his expatriate countrymen, Palencia found more...
...correspondent in Peru, sat down and wrote us about his job. Now 49, Loayza was a veteran correspondent before he returned to Lima twelve years ago. He had spent about 15 years on assignments in Japan, the U.S., France, England and Spain covering many major news stories. From Madrid in 1931, he scored a four-hour news beat when King Alfonso fled the country without abdicating, later reported battles of the Spanish Civil War. During the first three years of World War II, he worked for Nelson Rockefeller's committee on Inter-American Affairs, explaining to Peruvians...
...Madrid bull ring one afternoon last week, the torero was as clumsy as Sancho Panza, and the bull as listless as Rosinante. The aficionados booed, hissed, threw programs and cushions into the ring. Police tried in vain to quell the uproar. No one had seen anything like it in Spain for twelve years-since Franco came to power and banned bullring demonstrations, a beloved Spanish custom. Howled one spectator: "We want bulls for our money...
...ring, in defiance of Franco's rule, was another symptom of Spain's rising anger with the Franco administration. Its chief causes: high prices, black marketeers and official corruption. The strike wave began in Barcelona (TIME, March 19) and Pamplona (TIME, May 21). Last week Madrid followed with a mass demonstration, its first since the civil war. Chain letters and clandestine pamphlets touched off 300,000 to 400,000 workers on a buyers' strike. They stayed away from buses, subways, shops, bars and cafes, did without newspapers. Like long lines of ants the workers patiently walked...