Word: spain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Paris by Night. In all Europe this year, only the prewar mecca of continental tourism stands comparatively deserted. Boatloads and planeloads of people were arriving in France as they always had, but they were going right on-to Spain, whose low prices are a potent magnet, to Italy, and even to Greece, whose fewer hotels are so full that no newcomers could get a bed. "Foreign tourists pass through France, but they no longer stay," complained Le Parisien Libéré. Conducted tours of "Paris by Night," promising Le Striptease and authentic Apaches, were down to a half...
Like those who passed through, many a native of France himself had decided this year to take his ease in another country, where gas is cheaper than the $1 a gallon charged in France. An estimated 1,500,000 Frenchmen had left France by last week to vacation in Spain, Holland or Switzerland, and the visitors arriving to take their place numbered only 60% of normal. "We are killing the goose that lays the golden eggs," moaned the Parisian newspaper L'Aurore. But the geese were still flying, high and far and fast, all over the rest of Europe...
...stood to reason that Novelist André Malraux, onetime fighter pilot with the Loyalists in Spain's civil war, and internationally famed art critic, would eventually zero in on Francisco Goya. An illness deafened Goya in his 40s and turned him from pleasant art to black indictments of man's inhumanity and fate's immutability. Believing that Napoleon's invasion of Spain in 1808 spelled liberation, Goya at first collaborated. Inevitable disillusion further deepened his pessimism. Malraux, too, had a severe comeuppance in middle age when his Communist leanings proved to have been a flirtation with...
...mood merchants have concentrated on romance (Music for Tired Lovers, Music to Change Her Mind), but dining (Candlelight and Wine) and travel music is also catching on fast (Echoes of Spain, Music for the Nostalgic Traveler). So are such special items as Music for Baby Sitters and Music to Break a Lease. There are mood albums, the record companies boast, for every member of the family and for almost every household activity. Still, the possibilities remain vast. Not yet in the catalogue: Music for Boozing and Music to Soothe Your Hangover, Music to Shave By (so far, the bathroom...
Everything was over with the Baltic barons. Erick goes on to international adventuring with a gun for hire in Spain, the Gran Chaco and Manchuria, not with any ideological passion but simply because for one of his birth and background, there seems to be nothing else to do. His is a fable of one who survived-but did not live...