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Resurrection of the Old Shirts. The average Spaniard is no worse off than a year ago. Basic prices have not risen since then. The year's crop was good, and Argentina is sending wheat. Franco is not threatened by an immediate economic crisis. Two years ago, with Naziism's defeat, the regime was panicky. One year ago it just began to recover. Today it is plain cocky...
...best-seller in the U.S. and is currently No. 1 on England's hit parade. His guest appearances on the Bing Crosby show shot it to its highest Hooper rating. A patter record he and Bing Crosby made of Alexander's Ragtime Band and The Spaniard That Blighted My Life has sold 300,000 copies in two weeks...
That sounds fine, but it is not much help in understanding Miro's pictures. Last week the bouncy little Spaniard opened a new show in Manhattan which was as bright and baffling-and as childlike-as ever. Miro's wildly swooping lines looked as if they had been cast like lassoes into vast space. Tangled up in them were stars, teeth, mustachios, moons, flying eyes, arrows and balloons. Sometimes the random objects coalesced into grinning heads and figures; sometimes...
...Much in American history happened before 1776 or 1492. The birth of Christ in Palestine still arouses a deeper emotional response in Americans than even the Fourth of July. . . . The Athenian Plato, the Spaniard Cervantes, the English Shakespeare, the German Goethe, the Frenchman Balzac, played a large part in shaping the American mind. By excessive emphasis on American history, literature and civilization, we are cutting ourselves off from the broader, deeper, more humane currents in our own American tradition...
Write Sorrow on the Earth is chiefly the story of three people: an ex-professor named Paul Boissière, a young Spaniard whose nom-de-guerre is Bob, and Paul's wife Simone. Paul, at 38, is a middle-class intellectual whose revolutionary sympathies, though they have not frozen him along a party line, have impelled him to become a leader among the maquisards of the Vercors, in southeastern France. Bob, a veteran of the Spanish Civil War, is already, at 24, a seasoned revolutionary soldier. Paul and Bob have developed a close father-&-son-and brain-&-bravery...