Word: spanishness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wolfe Publishing Co.'s Insult Dictionary, subtitled, "How to Be Abusive in Five Languages," which has already sold some 50,000 copies across the Atlantic, promises to sell thousands more in its forthcoming U.S. edition. With 127 pages of snappish asperities in English, German, French, Italian and Spanish, the Insult Dictionary provides useful tips for conversations with surly cab drivers, arrogant bank tellers, clumsy hairdressers, nose-picking grocers and road hogs...
...added pepper and spice, Wolfe includes 52 "hard words," all-purpose insults that can be dropped in as needed. Example: "Hairy creep," which is Oiler Leisetreter in German, Troglodyte in French, Stupido scimmione in Italian and Espantapájaros in Spanish. "The insult must flash like lightning," admonishes Wolfe. "It must not be delivered tardily or with the hesitancy which is so often engendered if one is wondering whether or not the last syllable is to be inflected. Again, a slightly mangled pronunciation sometimes gives the insult a macabre quality; it may add to its stunning effect on the insultee...
Overlooking the plains to the south, where Don Quixote tilted at windmills, the first Museum of Spanish Abstract Art (see opposite page) opened this month in the citadel city of Cuenca. Three years of restoration went into the 20-room museum housed in 15th century buildings which crane over a gorge that drops some 600 feet. The prime mover is a wealthy Philippine-born painter named Fernando Zóbel, 42, who has taken from his collection 120 paintings, 200 drawings and twelve sculptures by fellow Spanish moderns to hang in the quaint quarters at Cuenca. After retiring from business...
Painterly Walls. The art inside is abstract, brutal and sober. Spanish artists prefer to call their work "informalist." Zobel inveighs against the impression that Spanish painting is "exaggeratedly tragic, a lot of King Kong beating on the chest." Says he: "There is Spanish restraint, absolute control of material, unsentimental romanticism, if you like, but none of this Germanic flopping around the deck with tears streaming...
Miss Sarozky has left little trace behind her at the Summer School. She was enrolled in Spanish SAab, was given privelege card number 2390, assigned to Straus A 42. Her proctor, Miss Asha Seth, said yesterday that she never met her and that her name vanished from the official student listing after July...