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Built on the rise of the Guadarrama mountain range 31 miles from Madrid, El Escorial casts such a gloomy aspect that the Romantic Poet Théophile Gautier called it the "granite debauch of Spain's Tiberius." Even its floor plan reflects a grim occasion. The monastery is named...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Dogma Shaped in Stone | 9/27/1963 | See Source »

Within the lifetime that he nearly did not have, Nagare has become a cult. A robust, prolific artist, he is a perfect idol, with the handsomely chiseled features of a Kabuki actor. He is a loner who despises the city's chatter and works in an isolated village called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Stone Crazy | 9/20/1963 | See Source »

Although the bed-and-beard similarities are inescapable, Run with the Devil is a more ambitious and professional undertaking than Greenwich Village Story. But perhaps to Romans it seems just as silly and unreal.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bed & Beard, International | 7/26/1963 | See Source »

To the citizens of Cologne, Kennedy brought greetings "from America, including the citizens of Cologne, Minnesota; Cologne, New Jersey; and even Cologne, Texas. As a citizen of Boston, which takes pride in being the oldest city in the U.S.,*I find it sobering to come to Cologne, where the Romans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Campaigner in Action | 7/5/1963 | See Source »

>The Château de Mercuès, within easy distance of the prehistoric caves of Lascaux, lies 340 miles south of Paris on the main road to Biarritz and Spain. It overlooks the Lot River valley from a 400-ft.-high rocky escarpment that the Romans used as an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: Fit for a King | 6/28/1963 | See Source »

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