Word: spanishness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...government now subsidizes Spanish films of "high artistic merit," has turned the Escuela Oficial de Cine into a lively center of experimental drama...
...whole, however, political liberalization has been slow and erratic. Most of the old restrictive laws are still on the books, and although they are sel dom enforced, the regime can dust them off at its pleasure, and does. Three years ago, Spanish Communist Julián Grimau was executed under the 1941 Law for the Suppression of Masonry and Communism, which supposedly had been repealed...
...Spanish students no longer go to jail en masse for campus demonstrations. But a new law last year empowered uni versity authorities to expel "agitators" and ban them from studying anywhere...
There has been considerable progress in freeing the arts. Since 1958, when Antoni Tàpies brought glory to Spain by winning the Venice Biennale, the regime has been furiously promoting young Spanish painters and writers...
What Spain desperately needs in order to keep its economy expanding is membership in the European Common Market. Twice rejected even for associate membership, Spain is afraid it may be cut off from its biggest and closest trading partner. Italy has already tried to restrict Common Market imports of Spanish oranges, and although the Italians have so far been