Word: spanishness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Slowly, solemnly, a procession of cowled monks and acolytes filed through the cloisters, chanting "Te lucis ante terminum." They entered a Spanish Renaissance courtyard and mounted a small stage shaded by a red-and-white-striped awning. "Good souls," the abbot sang, "the brothers have come today to show you a mystery...
...Keyes's story is about King Philip IV of Spain, who was born in 1605, died in 1665, and presided, an irresolute, unassertive and undistinguished monarch, over the sunset of the Spanish empire. There is not much story to tell, but Mrs. Keyes stuffs the holes in her plot with dates, names, panoply, history lessons, fashion shows, and archly veiled allusions to sex at the castle level...
...Madrid last week, the "unofficial" reception committee resembled the twelve days of Christmas. On hand were U.S. Ambassador to Spain Angier Biddle Duke, his wife, two of her children, the U.S. deputy chief of mission, the ambassador's special assistant, the embassy press attache, two Spanish Foreign Ministry functionaries, six White House Secret Service men, 25 press photographers, and Lynda Bird watchers as thick as pears on a pear tree. After a few days, Lynda was lamenting that it was altogether too much...
...Madrid's most eligible bachelors, among them dashing David Niven Jr., 29, thoughtfully imported for a lively embassy party tossed by the Dukes. And what about Actor George Hamilton, her beau back home? "I still have no thoughts of getting married," said she. As for Lynda, the Spanish swingers' verdict was: "Muy guapa. Much prettier than her photographs...
...heart-to-heart chat with Robin. Three of the Secret Service men were peeled off, and it was decided to keep her plans a little more guarded from the press, particularly the photographers, whom Senorita L.B.J. dismissed one night with the plea: "No mas! No more!" Turning down a Spanish air force offer to put a DC-3 at her disposal, she decided to travel by unmarked auto, train or commercial plane...