Word: mediterraneans
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...good deal of their inspiration, of course, must have come from Donald Soule's sets, which are so good as to merit mention before anything else. Soule's Moroccan garden and castle have a Mediterranean brilliance and intensity that make anyone on stage appear, inevitably, just a little more interesting than he could hope to be all by himself. It is a light which also shows off to good advantage Lewis Smith's handsome period costumes...
...spent half of almost every year on the Mediterranean island of Ischia. His Ischia landscapes are among his best works, but they were more the landscapes of a dream than of nature. No sun bathed them; they seemed to be lit from within. And sometimes a tree or a mountainside would take on the shape of a bird, a face or a giant eye. Gilles painted Ischia's fishermen, but they were as lonely as his gods, as tortured as his Ophelia and Lear. Whatever his subject, it was thick with melancholy...
Jews were living and working in North Africa before the Romans came. Some of them are Berber tribesmen whose ancestors were converted from paganism before the 7th century A.D. Others are Sephardim-Descendants of Spanish Jews who were forced into exile across the Mediterranean by Visigothic persecution in the 6th century or the Inquisition of the 15th. A third strain consists of European Jews who settled in North African cities after World War II. All three have found that exile is the inevitable aftermath of independence...
Even during the cruises, mail and radio reports flow out to the yacht. Last week, heading slowly back to Estoril from a trip through the Mediterranean, he paused briefly off Gibraltar to confer with two leaders of his council. He also stopped at Cartagena as guest of the local naval commander...
...fleeing Europeans seem determined to leave nothing to the Moslem inheritors of Algeria. The plumbing in abandoned homes was savagely broken; refrigerators were thrown into the Mediterranean; cars driven to the airport and docks were wrecked as a final gesture. In the cities of Algiers and Oran, Bone and Constantine last week, Europeans no longer greeted each other with "Bonjour, comment ca va?" Now they say: "When are you leaving...