Word: catalonia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...world. Patience Gray, a well-known food writer in England, tells us, "In the last 20 years I have shared the fortunes of a stone carver . . . Marble determined where, how and among whom we lived; always in primitive conditions." Thus did they feast and fast in Tuscany, Catalonia, the Cyclades and Apulia. Honey from a Weed (Harper & Row; 374 pages; $25) is a rich and idiosyncratic ramble through those festivals and harvests, and it makes perhaps the most enticing book of the year. There are detailed recipes for such local delicacies as grapes in syrup from Greece and an Italian...
HOSPITALIZED. Salvador Dali, 80, eccentric Spanish surrealist painter who in recent years has lived as a recluse in his castle near Cadaqués, in Catalonia; for surgery to treat severe burns received when his canopied bed caught fire; in Barcelona...
...Catalonia sees the king in Madrid with different eyes than Catalonia would see a president in Madrid," he says. As evidence, in 1979 the sovereign became the first in over 500 years to address the parliament of the highly separatist Basque region...
...died on the island of Mallorca, but came from Catalonia, the Spanish province whose language, humor and sights had fueled his imagination all his life. Most great art is rooted in provinciality, and Miró's was no exception. He was a city boy, a goldsmith's son, but he spent part of his youth on the farm that his parents owned at Montroig. Its white, cracked walls, dusty earth and heatstruck furrows-commemorated in lunar detail in The Farm, 1921-22-were the frame of an immense repertory of images that constituted the motifs...
...recounted his odyssey in Homage to Catalonia (1938). He joined a local militia unit and marched into trouble. Franco's troops fired at him, as expected; they were the enemy. But while recuperating from a bullet wound in the throat, Orwell learned that Communists in the Spanish government had outlawed the loose alliance of radicals he had joined in the struggle against Franco. The independent workers' stronghold in Barcelona was not, apparently, what Madrid or Moscow had in mind. Suddenly Orwell and his colleagues-at-arms were being called fascists, Franco's hired killers, by the Communist...