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...Essay "Who Needs Masterpieces at Those Prices?" [July 19], that "in America today, nobody needs another Titian -not at those prices." America does need masterpieces, and the high cost is created not by the "rapacity" of museums but by the extreme rarity of these masterpieces (the Velázquez and the Titian are probably the last great masterpieces ever to go on sale) and by inflation...
...Metropolitan Museum, in purchasing the Velázquez, was simply performing one of the principal functions of a museum, acquiring a great work of art. The painting was purchased with funds restricted solely to art purchases; we could not have used the money otherwise...
...Salvador's ground troops attacked the provincial capital of Nueva Ocotepeque, in Honduras' southwest corner. A brigade commanded by Colonel Mario ("El Diablo") Velázquez Jandres, a hefty green-eyed man who sports modish sideburns, pressed poorly led Honduran units into a narrow defile, then battered them and the town with 75-mm. artillery and mortar fire...
...culture, its natural and architectural milieu, and the quality of the Spanish character-which Michener sums up in one evocative word, duende, meaning "mysterious and ineffable charm." All the immemorial sights are here too: the revelry following the feria at Seville, the impact of the roomful of Velázquez paintings at the Prado, the soaring, glowing Gothic church at León, the splendor of the cathedral at Santiago de Compostela. Michener's Tales of the South Pacific, The Source, and Hawaii brought him deserved standing as a competent if often heavy-footed popular novelist. His Iberia proves...
...making room for a high-rise apartment building. On the outskirts of the city, Dodge Darts are rolling out of a vast factory complex that less than a year ago was an empty field. Europe's biggest supermarket opened two years ago on the exclusive Calle Velázquez. In a dim, dark-paneled bar on the Avenida de las Americas, boys in long hair and girls in white Vartan stockings sit carefully cool and immobile as a yé-yé band blasts out a yeah-yeah beat...