Word: spanishness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Peace Corpsmen, the first Volunteers in the Andes. They operated in communities located in spectacular mountain country at extreme altitudes (some as high as 13,000 feet), inhabited by the Indian descendants of the Inca civilization, interspersed in the larger towns and cities by mestizos, Peruvians of mixed Spanish and Indian blood...
...series of 27 recitals in Mexico City with only an occasional repetition. Since then his catalogue has expanded in all directions, with the exception of the avantgarde, "whom I leave to the youngsters." He has long been the world's reigning Chopinist, he excels in French impressionistic and modern Spanish music, and he is as at home with Bach as he is with Stravinsky...
Rubinstein was scheduled to play only four concerts in Spain, but his hot-handed treatment of Spanish music so floored the audiences that he crisscrossed the country for 120 additional performances. He was feted and fawned over like a toreador. The Queen Mother, Maria Cristina, invited him to the palace for tea. King Alfonso XIII became an intimate. ("He was the most tone-deaf man I ever knew," says Rubinstein. "From the time he was seven, he was accompanied by a man assigned to nudge him whenever the national anthem was played.") His new success led to a tour...
When Jacobs became interested in Latin America seven years ago, he began to read South American geography and politics, and spent a term at Harvard Summer School studying Spanish. He is serious about his hobby and considers air time too valuable for ordinary conversation if there is no real need for his services...
...Sports Palace. Domingo takes this lump of reality and lifts it into a world where dream and reason interpenetrate. His narrator-hero is a Spanish immigrant slaughterhouse worker who looks back on "seven years of sleepwalking from urinal to urinal. Seven years of unconsciousness, of being half asleep and idiotic and happy ... in this limbo of progressive idiocy . . . Mary's blue mantle hangs in the window of the antique shop and there is a glass eye that bleeds every Friday when actresses get divorced . . . but the fishermen no longer go to the Seine, because all they find...