Word: loyalist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Franco's forces won the civil war in Spain, ardent Loyalist Pablo Picasso vowed he would never return, never exhibit in his native land while Franco was there. Last week Picasso relented, at least to the point of letting 48 of his works be shown in Barcelona's Gaspar Gallery. Franco's government, which granted the works a temporary customs permit to enter, did nothing to muzzle the press. Result: a jampacked exhibition, ringing press tributes to Picasso as "the painter of our time...
...asserted the psychological truth in religion, i.e., that it was concerned with real unconscious conflicts present in everyone. In this book he laid special stress on the historical truth in religion, i.e., that it was concerned with the unconscious memory of actual happenings." The intriguing point (not acknowledged by Loyalist Jones) about Freud's religious theorizing: it is reminiscent of the "archetypes" in Jung's psychology, which is roundly denounced by most Freudians...
...well acquainted with the Kremlin oligarchy (said he: "Moscow stands for progress"; said Stalin: "You have done a good job of reporting"), accompanied Foreign Affairs Commissar Maxim Litvinoff when he came to Washington in 1933 searching for U.S. recognition, later covered the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) from the Loyalist side...
Hemingway is not marvelously adaptable to the screen because his writing leaves a great deal to the imagination, and when poorly acted seems quite shallow. But his moving novel about Loyalist cloak-and-dagger activity in the Spanish Civil War is turned into a second rate horse-opera in this version. Nothing is missing, from the hero's inevitable "Well, I never had much time for women" to snipers tumbling from pinnacles by the dozen...
Pilgrims at Prades. During the Spanish Civil War he was a passionate Loyalist. At war's end he exiled himself to "the village of Prades (pop. 5,400) in Southern France, where he spent much of his time and money helping refugees from Franco Spain. For a decade the world heard little of Pablo Casals' music; in 1947 he vowed never to appear in public so long as Franco ruled Spain. When Sir Stafford Cripps invited him to England to explain why Great Britain supported Franco, Casals refused, commented: "He would talk politics; I am talking morals...