Word: spaniards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...came to the Spanish hilltop town of Toledo. His origins were obscure, and his name-Domenikos Theotokopoulos-was so difficult that he was called simply El Greco (The Greek). He said he was born in Crete, boasted that he had been a student of Titian and, as one Toledo Spaniard recorded, "he let it be understood that nothing in the world was superior to his art." Certainly the stranger had at his brush tip not only Titian's designs but also all the secrets of Tintoretto's theatrical fireworks and Correggio's dramatic lighting as well. Soon...
PICASSO, by Frank Elgar and Robert Mailllard (315 pp.; Praeger; $5), is as ingenious as it is instructive. It follows the great Spaniard's endlessly experimental career from boyish leanings on older masters to the unpredictable individualist of old age who still defies simple analysis. The book does this in parallel critical and biographical commentaries that are expertly illustrated by the pictures appropriate to each page. A valuable attempt and this year's real bargain among art books...
...unnumbered undershirt and baggy slacks, the pudgy, 49-year-old Spaniard looked more like a masseur than an ath lete. Felix Erauzquin picked up a javelin, held it behind his back, spun around twice, and let it go. The javelin traveled 273 ft. 6 in.-only nf in. short of the world's record...
...answer, as any good Spaniard knows, is that the rest of the world is mad. The leisurely Spanish have evolved a daily schedule that amounts to a happy truce with the business of earning a living. Spanish morning begins at 10 a.m., noon comes at 2 p.m. and early afternoon at 4:30 p.m. No Spaniard who is anyone goes to work before noon. Lunch is a two-or three-hour affair beginning at 2 p.m., and dinner stretches from 11 p.m. into the small hours of the morning. Among upper-class Spaniards and those who aspire to that state...
Troublesome Tourist. Goya's beginnings were humble; they did not make him so. Every self-respecting Spaniard considers himself in some sense noble, and Goya was born in one of the proudest Spanish regions: barren Aragon. His father, a gilder by trade, was too poor to provide much for his son's education, so Goya decamped for Madrid, twice tried and failed to get an art scholarship. In 1766, when he was 20, Goya turned up in Italy. According to legend, he was a troublesome tourist, cocky, stocky, amorous and quick to duel...