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Spain's great and brooding Escorial was built to be a royal court, reliquary, monastery, art gallery, basilica and a pantheon of kings all joined in one. But most of all it was-and is-the symbol of the change-resisting spirit of Spain, as Philip II defined it when he decreed its construction. Now celebrating its fourth centenary, the Royal Monastery of San Lorenzo of El Escorial is the largest and most ambitious Renaissance building in Spain and still, in esthetic effect, an impregnable bulwark...
TRAVELS: NEAR AND FAR OUT by Anthony Carson. 309 pages. Pantheon...
CITIES OF THE FLESH by Zoe Oldenbourg. 503 pages. Pantheon Press...
MEMORIES, DREAMS, REFLECTIONS (398 pp.)-C. G. Jung-Pantheon...
PROBABLY never before in our times has one room become a pantheon for so diverse and distinguished a group. They will be joined by the editors of TIME and other guests, and the toastmaster will be TIME'S Editor in Chief Henry R. Luce. We anticipate quite an evening-a coming together of some whose beauty, glamour and force of personality have made them stand out; some whose skills are athletic and others political; some effacing ones whose achievements are intellectual and solitary; some whose quiet laboratory work brought them recognition; and others with the temperament to seize...