Word: spain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...French families own TV sets, at least six out of ten workers' families are able to set tle down on the canape at night to watch le football matches and the pop-singer contests. More than half of all French workers own a car, and a vacation in Spain or even Greece is no longer the province of the well-to-do Frenchman...
Texans have a special relish for the Spanish flavor of their past. To their delight, this year the sentiment is being reciprocated by the loan to San Antonio's HemisFair of 13 masterpieces from Spain. The heavily guarded collection, estimated to be worth $10 million, includes outstanding works by Goya, Velásquez, Murillo, Zurbaran and El Greco (see color pages). It not only represents the pick of the Prado, but also includes paintings from other Spanish museums. The exhibit is designed to tie in with the fair's theme, "The Confluence of Civilizations," by demonstrating that Spanish...
Fairgoers who stand in awe before El Greco's gently swashbuckling Saint Bartholomew or his voluptuously spiritual Holy Family have double reason to be grateful. The government has announced that this is the last time such masterpieces will be sent out of the country. But when Spain's paintings return home next October after the closing of HemisFair, Texans will not be totally bereft. They can feast their eyes at the Virginia Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, where a group of Spanish paintings is being built up by Algur Hurtle Meadows, the Dallas oil millionaire...
...Balaguer is moving forcefully-and with little coordinated political opposition to deter him. General Elias Wessin y Wessin, leader of the ultraright, remains in involuntary exile in Miami. Leftist Juan Bosch continues in voluntary exile in Spain. Meantime, their political movements within the country have splintered and all but disintegrated. Pleas by Wessin, Bosch and other opposition leaders for a heavy abstention on voting day were largely unheeded by the electorate...
...spite of Michener's long-windedness, no single book since V. S. Pritchett's The Spanish Temper and Gerald Brenan's The Face of Spain has succeeded so well in embracing the country's history and culture, its natural and architectural milieu, and the quality of the Spanish character-which Michener sums up in one evocative word, duende, meaning "mysterious and ineffable charm." All the immemorial sights are here too: the revelry following the feria at Seville, the impact of the roomful of Velázquez paintings at the Prado, the soaring, glowing Gothic church...