Word: taveras
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...years. The picture is one of the most striking, and least familiar, in a fine new book of reproductions released last week under the brief title, El Greco (Harry N. Abrams; $10). In the accompanying text, Critic Leo Bronstein explains that El Greco painted his portrait of Spanish Cardinal Tavera from a death mask, kept the whole picture correspondingly austere...
...Today they work from photographs of the subject, but posed photos are apt to miss the revealing gesture or the characteristic turn of lip, nostril or eyelid that painters look for. El Greco, with only a rigid mask for a starting point, made a virtue of his difficulty. Cardinal Tavera's imagined hand, with its long tapering fingers, and his dark, luminous, meditative eyes perhaps have more of the painter himself than of the cardinal about them; they reappear in most of El Greco's works. But they intensify the portrait's life-in-death stillness...
...short, balding Luis Fernando Guachalla, 47, ex-Minister to Washington and friend of Cordell Hull. Both had helped run the melancholy Chaco War with Paraguay. (Last week, while the two old-line nominees campaigned in the interior, dissident laborites in La Paz put up a third candidate, General Felix Tavera. He figured to run third...