Word: spain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...beleagured remnants of the Spanish Republican Army gave up their arms, the Iberian peninsula saw the end of the only constitutionally elected government in its history. The two and a half year war that had brought down the Republic cost over a million Spanish lives. This month, all over Spain, church bells are ringing at regular intervals to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the war's end. Somber and funereal, the bells suggest the ambivalence that lingers in many Spanish minds on the subject...
...quarter of a century since the war Spain's ruler has been the stocky, mustached Francisco Franco Bahamonde, Caudillo, Jefe del Estado, Prime Minister, Generalissimo of the Armed Forces, Regent of the Kingdom, and President of the Falange. Franco inaugurated a year of memorial celebrations--"Twenty-Five Years of Peace"--earlier this month with a service at the Holy Cross Basilica, a multi-million dollar monument to the war dead. The service will be followed by a year-long continuum of fairs, parades, dances, and patriotic exhibitions. "As tragic as were the dead," commented the government's Director-General...
...works and for cusing it on his life. He was, in fact, a lyric poet of great talent-although many critics would argue that either Antonio Machado or Miguel Hernandez among his contemporaries was a finer writer. Lorca was a romantic, and what he restored to the literature of Spain was the tragic vision that Cervantes understood and that left Hemingway mesmerized. "It is Spanish," said Actress Aurora Bautista of Lorca's greatest play, Yerma. "We are unused to things Spanish." And unused, too, to the terrible directness of vision that illuminated Lorca's best writing...
...story of a young peasant woman who yearns so passionately for a child that she finally murders her sterile husband, crying "But I have killed my son!" Blood Wedding is a study of one of the terrible family feuds that used to be waged generation after generation in rural Spain. Bernarda Alba is the tale of a widowed mother and her five unmarried daughters living in mutual loathing in a Spanish village. The interest in all of them is less in the story than in the powerful, passionate poetry in which it is told...
...much so that for twelve years after his death, publication of his name was forbidden in Spain...