Word: pablo
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...wall out of the garden. Recognizing that our language and the tradition which survives it is no longer an exclusive proposition. Bly has turned to foreign poets, translating their work, providing essays on their lives, and revealing their enormous influence on his own poems. Georg Trakl, Cesar Vallejo, Pablo Neruda: these are names whose meaning calls out to us in a low voice, intruding on our conscious life: their experience is entirely other than...
...This is heartbreaking," said Student Paloma Picasso, 21, after a French court refused to recognize her brother Claude as Painter Pablo Picasso's legal heir. Since both Claude and Paloma are children of Picasso's former mistress, Françoise Gilot, the decision seemed to rule out any chance that Paloma might eventually share fully in her father's vast fortune. But it did not leave her entirely without assets...
...Leopold Stokowski. But "Salud Casals" night did not really get under way until the guest of honor arrived with his all-cello orchestra. The performers had gathered from all over the world. Each cellist financed his own trip and donated his services for the privilege of being led by Pablo Casals in one of his brief compositions, a Catalan Sardana (an infinite number of cellos can play its eight-part harmony...
...British monarchs starting with Queen Victoria in 1899. He knew Debussy, Rimsky-Korsakov and Conductor Hans Richter, who had been a friend of Wagner. His book is stuffed with tales of great music makers at their most unbuckled moments. He tells how his friend Violinist Pablo Sarasate used to complain of insomnia because, he claimed, his room was full of turtles. Tiring of this fiction, Sarasate's friends filled the great virtuoso's quarters with real turtles. Sarasate contemplated the creatures and, unabashed, sighed...
...Sabartés donated the rich collection to the city of Barcelona, which provided a lovely old palacio to house it. Picasso's bequest was actually made a month ago, when he summoned a Barcelona notary public to his Riviera villa and dictated a document, declaring, "I, Pablo Picasso, in memory of my unforgettable friend Jaime Sabartés, grant the bequest to the city of Barcelona...