Word: toreros
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...government ban on demonstrations by gibing at the police and cheering for their party. One enthusiast amused the crowd by making bullfight passes with his coat at a clumsy young policeman charging him with a rifle butt. The cop finally fired from the hip into the air; the torero and his aficionados fled...
...more, the bulls, diabolically quick to learn, would have a fatal advantage over a bullfighter. Even in a tienta, young bulls are allowed to make no more than three or four charges at the picador. On the other hand, heifers, which will never get a chance at a torero, are worked to exhaustion to study theif future value as mothers of fighting sons...
Lorca's Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias, translated in this volume, has no equal among modern elegies for directness in the vision of death and for symphonic magnificence of form. Mejias was a torero, an Andalusian and friend of Lorca's, who died after a goring...
...Summer Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). Milton Katims conducting Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 3 in A Minor, Turina's La Oración del Torero, Khachaturian's Suite from Gayane...
...fight before the cathedral in the Plaza de Armas; the old Lima bull ring, built in 1765, is said by Limeños to be the world's oldest. But never has Lima known a fighter like its own Conchita Cintron, the world's greatest female torero and mistress, to boot, of the art of rejoneo (bullfighting with a short spear from horseback...