Word: spain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Abstraction Ran Out. In time. Jan got to Spain, to Lisbon, and finally to the U.S. He worked as a dishwasher, a factory worker, a day-camp instructor; but in 1945 he decided to devote himself to painting. He studied at the Art Students League, six months later switched to the school run by Hans Hofmann, the most influential teacher of U.S. abstract expressionism. But Müller could not follow so doctrinaire a master for long...
...editions, not to mention one for school children and two for the blind.* Convicts in U.S. prisons get 50,000 copies a month free. It goes to more than 100 countries and outsells all other monthly magazines in Argentina, Belgium, Canada, Colombia, Finland, Italy, Mexico, Peru, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Uruguay, Venezuela-and, of course, the U.S. Last week the Reader's Digest-circ. 22.8 million-proudly observed its 40th birthday with a 300-page anniversary issue...
Revolution with Anisette. The S.A.O. phenomenon is in part explained by the special character of the 1,000,000 Europeans of Algeria. They hold French citizenship, but only one-quarter of them are of French origin. The rest are immigrants, or descendants of immigrants, from Spain, Italy, Greece, Malta, Corsica and other Mediterranean lands. Out of this melting pot has emerged a distinct race who call themselves pieds-noirs, or "black feet" (supposedly because most of their ancestors arrived without shoes), combining Spanish poise with Italian
...insist, preposterous though the claim is, that the majority of Moslems love the S.A.O. better than the F.L.N. Susini, the young doctrinaire, and Salan, the old politician-general, have become close friends. He listens intently to Susini's urgings that France needs a regime like Generalissimo Franco's in Spain, "only tougher." But Salan prefers the role of a mystical statesman, without making any public declaration on future policy. Salan operates in politics as he has in war?slowly, thoughtfully, his undoubted courage overlaid with caution...
...Rafael Rubio, crossed ideologies with Dictator Porfirio Diaz. In 1933, she was shipped off to Europe, and two years later married Count Franz von Furstenberg. When Hitler came to power, Gloria and her two children, Franz and Delores, fled to Madrid while her husband stayed on in Germany. In Spain, she got a "friendly" divorce that was to help her get exit visas, but the visas never came through, and the count married another woman (and fathered Actress Betsy von Furstenberg). Gloria met Guinness in 1949 on a yachting trip, married...