Word: prado
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This colorful calendar of events is an approach that Smith, 56, first attempted with a book on Japan. To get the best possible photographs for his present work,* he mounted flimsy scaffolds in Moorish mosques, prowled the chill cellars of El Escorial, and nestled in the niches of the Prado. One of the most fascinating chapters of the book depicts the 800-year-long confrontation of Moor and Christian (see color pages), a conflict that forged the Spanish spirit, united a nation and changed Spain's art forever...
Along with the bullfights and the Prado, Spain's fabled flamenco dancing is something every tourist wants to see. What U.S. visitors seldom realize is that the "authentic" dances staged in the vast majority of Spain's "singing cafés" or tablaos 'these days are more flimflam than flamenco. To meet the demand, moaned a flamenco impresario in Madrid last week, "anybody who can wiggle his feet or snap his fingers has set up a tablao-and is cleaning up. The result is the complete breakdown of authentic flamenco. They're all dancing...
...enterprising art dealer named Justin K. Thannhauser and an eager collector, Movie Actor Edward G. Robinson, left Paris together, along with their wives, for an art-seeing holiday in Switzerland. Their main goal was an exhibition on loan from the Prado. They saw the Spanish paintings, but the Thannhausers never returned to France. World War II began, and as German-born Jews, they took sanctuary in Switzerland until they could come to New York...
...will be compelled to overthrow it." Watching from the wings, Peru's army regarded Belaúnde with suspicion. But it hated APRA with an unyielding fury. The generals sent tanks crashing through the wrought-iron gates of Lima's presidential palace, deposed outgoing President Manuel Prado, nullified the election, and set up their own four-man junta to rule Peru...
Belaunde inherited a country that for all its troubles, was beginning to show some economic strength. Under the sound, hard-money policies of Prado's Premier Pedro Beltran, policies that the military junta had the sense to continue, Peru's foreign reserves had climbed from almost nothing in 1959 to $106 million by 1963, old industries like iron and copper mining were expanding, new industries like fish meal were growing, and the sol had become one of Latin America's stronger currencies. Then here came Belaunde, inexperienced in government, unschooled in banking or economics. He came with...