Word: spanishness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Among Che's possessions they found a 30,000-word diary, written in his own hand in Spanish and detailing all his activities from the time he arrived in Bolivia in 1966 almost up to the day of his capture. The government used excerpts from the diary to convict French Agitator Jules Regis Debray for aiding the guerrillas. It also arrested some 20 Bolivians who were mentioned as collaborators. Then, once the political usefulness of the diary had been exhausted, it was put up for sale...
...instance, C.R.L.A. took up the case of an eight-months pregnant Spanish-speaking farm worker who was denied welfare aid for failing to use an official phrase on an application form. C.R.L.A. asked for a hearing, and the welfare agency approved the application and made back payments. C.R.L.A. challenged the constitutionality of complex Internal Revenue Service requirements that are either incomprehensible or impossible to fulfill for Spanish-speaking Mexican-Americans. The IRS not only conceded but also asked Lorenz for help in hiring bilingual employees to explain its requirements...
...Barcelona one spring morning in 1928, Alicia de Larrocha's piano teacher played her a little piece by the Spanish pianist-composer Enrique Granados (1867-1916). As she remembers the occasion now, "there opened before me a new world of poetry and dreams. I had the sensation that this music formed part of myself, and now I would never be able to free myself from its influence...
Alicia was only four at the time, but her reaction was as perspicacious as it was prophetic. Granados, who turned out a substantial body of operas, songs and other kinds of music, was above all a composer for the piano. He blended an instinctive Spanish flavor with French impressionism and the Chopin-Liszt tradition to produce a heady and original style, flowing with romantic feeling yet tempered and refined by elegant workmanship. His six-part suite, Goyescas, which powerfully evokes the gaudy, sensual world of Goya's paintings and tapestries, stands with Albe-niz' Iberia at the pinnacle...
Quality of Seduction. For her, she says, the Spanish musical idiom has "the same quality that our great flamenco dancers have-the sense of excitement held tightly under control. With this comes the quality of seduction, a certain haughtiness, or pride." She has absorbed that idiom thoroughly. Both her mother and aunt studied piano with Granados, and her own teacher, the late Frank Marshall, was a notable Granados disciple. Today, when she is not hopping continents to keep up with her steadily expanding concert schedule, she directs the piano academy that Granados founded in Barcelona. Among the faculty: her aunt...