Word: spain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With stops in Russia during the 'heroic days' of the second Five Year Plan and in Spain in 1937, Langston Hughes' journey from 1930 to 1937 paralleled those of many writers and journalists born around 1900. But Hughes' story is not much like those of such men as Stephen Spender, Louis Aragon, Louis Fischer, George/Orwell, and Arthur Koestler...
Marcelino. A miracle play filled with a shining sweetness, made in Spain by Director Ladislao Vajda (TIME...
...Spain, Belgium and The Netherlands are all in trouble with short supplies, are trying to reduce consumption as much as 20%. In Spain, gas hoarding has drained Madrid's gas pumps dry, and all three nations expect industrial slowdowns and price rises...
...Ernani, based on a Victor Hugo play, resembles a travesty of all grand-opera plots. The main motivation seems to be the handsome Bandit Ernani's death wish. Before he finally kills himself in Act IV, he gets into all sorts of entanglements with the King of Spain, an old grandee, and the woman who is desired by all of them. Amidst a welter of prayers, supplications, pageants and credos, nothing occurs resembling a human relationship. Similarly, the score, composed when Verdi was 30, sounds like a not very funny satire of Verdian music that put listeners in mind...
Marcelino. A shining miracle play, made in Spain by Director Ladislao Vajda (TIME...