Word: spain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chasing Butterflies. For a few professors, summer travel is nothing new. University of Chicago Philologist John Corominas, 61, has been roaming the Catalonia region of Spain since 1931, asking everyone from mayors to illiterate peasants about the names given to places. Dressed like an ordinary Spaniard, Corominas reads gravestones, checks into town and church records, and figures out Catalonian history from what he learns. To the peasants, he has come to be known as the nosy vagabond who comes around every summer...
...mover is a wealthy Philippine-born painter named Fernando Zóbel, 42, who has taken from his collection 120 paintings, 200 drawings and twelve sculptures by fellow Spanish moderns to hang in the quaint quarters at Cuenca. After retiring from business in 1959, Zóbel looked about Spain for a place to lodge his collection, which included, aside from his works by Goya, Velásquez and El Greco, post-Picasso Spanish painters of promise. An abstractionist named Gustavo Torner, now co-director of the museum, persuaded him to try Cuenca, where a grateful mayor was happy...
...throw a blob of paint on my canvas, I am committing a rape. When I work I become a kind of monster." There is violence, a seething impasto in whorls of dark color, the suggestion of hot, bubbling blood. Like the peeling, crumbling walls of the Cuenca museum itself, Spain's informalists, such as Luis Feito, present a modern vision of ancient agonies bred in the scorching sun. They convey a sense of decaying grandeur, human endurance and often bizarre imagination. Only 324 years before, below this newly established refuge of Iberian abstraction, Philip IV's noblemen staged...
...Krogager plows most earnings back into the companies, whose plant and equipment are now worth $45 million. His Sterling Airways, run for him by a onetime SAS pilot, has on order two more Caravelles and a DC-6-B. Krogager is also building an eleven-story hotel on Spain's Costa del Sol and planning another on Rhodes. The company is about to rent a computer for data processing to supplement Krogager's staff...
...pastor got into the travel business almost by divine comedy. Eager to make a tour of Spain in 1949 but too poor to swing it, Krogager signed up 70 Jutlanders for the trip, went along, with expenses paid, as their guide. In Segovia, Krogager forgot the name of an inn where the group had contracted to eat dinner. He took the travelers to another place-only to be confronted at meal's end by the irate owner of the scheduled restaurant, who demanded payment for the uneaten meal. In the red by $150 as a result, Krogager decided...