Word: spain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Spain's great and brooding Escorial was built to be a royal court, reliquary, monastery, art gallery, basilica and a pantheon of kings all joined in one. But most of all it was-and is-the symbol of the change-resisting spirit of Spain, as Philip II defined it when he decreed its construction. Now celebrating its fourth centenary, the Royal Monastery of San Lorenzo of El Escorial is the largest and most ambitious Renaissance building in Spain and still, in esthetic effect, an impregnable bulwark...
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 in honor of a humble 3rd century deacon who was burned alive on a gridiron by his Roman torturers. San Lorenzo, it is said, calmly instructed the Romans: "This side's done. You can turn me over now." His coolness under trial won him a lasting place in Spanish...
...deals regularly with such stores as Neiman-Marcus and Saks Fifth Avenue, will pay more for merchandise if the manufacturer or store will let it leave on the original labels. Just before Paris fell to the Germans, Filene's buyers shipped 400 Schiaparelli and Lelong dresses home through Spain; the dresses disappeared from the racks in 15 minutes. Chairman Hodgkinson managed to buy out the Queen Mary's fancy haberdashery shop when the liner became a World War II troopship, still travels around the globe in search of bargains for the basement...
Since Lowell was the first editor of The Atlantic Monthly, a co-founder of The North American Review, minister to Spain, and Ambassador to Great Britain, Elmwood in his day was an intellectual center in Boston, the "Hub of the Universe." Undoubtedly, the Fords will make Elmwood an important part of Harvard, but now that Boston is "the All-America City" instead of the Hub of the Universe it seems unlikely that Elmwood will ever again enjoy the reputation it held under James Russell Lowell...
Nothing of the Beat. So began Carson's wonderful travels. To those who follow Carson's tormented trail, Spain will always seem madder, Germany more maddening, and Italy more wonderful because Carson has been there. He proves that the world does have an escape hatch...