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...translations of Spanish language novels achieved worldwide fame and renown in the 1970s and 1980s, Catalan writers remained obscure, even after Franco’s death in 1975, when the ban on Catalan was lifted. With her translation of “Death in Spring,” Martha Tennent hopes to begin to redress this historic injustice. How deeply unfortunate, then, that the novel itself cannot live up to the promise of a hidden classic. A brief work of only 150 pages, told in dense four-page episodes, “Death in Spring” creates a world...
Fred A. DaBois Tennent...
...reserves was accompanied by a rising sense of cultural pride as, in the words of Scots Folklorist Hamish Henderson, "a civilization claws itself back to life." The blue and white Scottish flag is increasingly flown. The Drybrough brewery prints the flag on its export cans, while the brewer of Tennent's lager pushes the slogan: "It's good ... It's satisfying ... It's Scottish." Scots revel in the fact that the country's soccer team qualified for the World Cup final this year while England...
...audience rather than for people "whose only thought is whether their tiaras are on straight." She believes in short runs and unending experiment. It takes a lot of money to support a lady like that, and she coulc make millions working for big West End producers like H. M. Tennent. But she would prefer a handout from H.M Government. About $150,000 would do it-per annum...
...said wickedly. Undermine would have been a better word. When Measure for Measure opened?with people like John Gielgud and Terence Rattigan in the audience, for the O.U.D.S. was as important then as now?guess who was striding the boards as Angelo.- Binky Beaumont of H. M. Tennent Ltd., London's most powerful theatrical producer, was also there. He told Richard to stay alive and look him up when his Oxford and R.A.F. days were done...