Word: spaniards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best line of all falls to Pirate No. 2 .(Lloyd Berrell), a Spaniard who twirls his gleaming black mustachios and promises Pirate No. 1: "I weel peel you like a mango...
...CYPRESSES BELIEVE IN GOD, by José María Gironella (2 vols., 1,010 pp.; Knopf; $10), is the first installment of a vastly ambitious novel by a Spaniard who fought on the Franco side in the Spanish civil war and has set out to tell his country's tragic story from the beginning of the republic (1931) to the present. Cypresses covers the first five years of political unrest, ends twelve days after the beginning of civil war. Gironella tries to mirror every segment of Spanish society, from wild-eyed anarchists to stuffy professors, "from the bishop...
...their warm sympathy for struggling composers, the Ajemian sisters rank high among this handful. Last week, at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art, Pianist Maro and Violinist Anahid Ajemian played a representative program, including works by Austrian Ernst Krenek, American Alan Hovhaness, the late German Kurt Weill and Spaniard Carlos Surinach. The Ajemians not only played without a fee but ended the evening owing a sizable printer's bill for programs...
ANTONI CLAVÉ, 41, a Spaniard who is currently France's leading ballet stage designer. Clavé's handsome studies in rich greens, blacks and deep violets of dolls, stage props, studio bric-a-brac are largely decorative, inspired by hints thrown out earlier by Bonnard and Picasso...
...while playing a tournament in Switzerland, Drobny and his doubles part ner. Vladimir Czernik. refused to go home when the Czech government told them to bow out because a German and a Spaniard had entered. Life as a stateless tennis amateur was not easy. Drobny moved to Australia, then the U.S., always broke between matches. When a wealthy Egyptian tennis fan offered him a job and a chance to play all the tennis he wanted, Drobny became an Egyptian citizen, ultimately developed his own profitable export business...