Word: spanishness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heart of the city's shopping center (see map). Shoppers would thus have an "isola pedonale"-a pedestrian island-all to themselves during peak hours save for buses and taxis. All seemed bellissimo when the plan went into effect: children calmly played soccer at the foot of the Spanish steps, where autos once hurtled blithely by; grown-ups ambled wonderingly down the center of the fashionable Via Condotti, window-shopping at their casual ease...
During its last season in its storied and gloried old house, New York's Metropolitan Opera offered some superb new singers, including Italian Soprano Mirella Frem, Spanish Soprano Montserrat Caballe and Bulgarian Basso Nicolai Ghiaurov. The Met also launched its new national touring company, whose performances ranged from a fine Cinderella to a terrible Carmen. Opera companies in other cities tirelessly found out-of-the-way things to do, for instance, the Kansas City production of Handel's 241-year-old Julius Caesar and the Boston premiere of Italian Composer Luigi Nono s starkly modern Intolleranza...
...sense, the right-to-strike law is only an admission of the facts of life. Spurred by the nation's increased prosperity and the need to keep up with rising prices, the Spanish labor force has been growing in power and audacity. A series of wildcat strikes this year ended only when the government bowed to the workers' demands for more...
...have been eaten, given away, stolen or destroyed in one way or another; production is less than a third of its original level, while the government, hampered by lack of technical help, struggles to make modern ranchers of the new tenants who cannot read, and often cannot even speak Spanish...
...known as the Black Virgin. Daughter of an industrial chemist, Caballé was enrolled in Barcelona's Conservatorio del Liceo at nine, worked as a seamstress to pay for her tuition, graduated at 23 with every honor in sight. Wed last year in the Montserrat monastery to Spanish Tenor Bernabé Martí, whom she met while singing Madama Butterfly in Barcelona, she says, "I am probably the only Cio-Cio-San who ever married her Pinkerton...