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Applauding Feet. Sharing the applause with Composer Cesti was Spanish Mezzo Berganza, 27, who combined some fine acting with effortless singing in the title role. Fast emerging as one of Europe's top divas, Berganza originally studied piano at the Madrid Conservatory, took up singing as a joke, hit the concert circuit after unexpectedly winning the conservatory's singing prize, and married her accompanist...
...couple, small, bright Refugee Rozlapa fell in love with Spanish at La Grange (Ill.) High School. With a George M. Pullman Scholarship, she wound up at Chicago, where she was Spanish Club president and earned a better than 3.7 average. Now she has a Fulbright fellowship to study in Madrid, hopes eventually to teach "in a large university like Chicago," where she can research and translate from the whole spectrum of Spanish literature. "I would be very happy," says she, "to get across to students the great interest I have in Spanish-how to manipulate the language, how to understand...
...Cuban meets a group of Spaniards in a café in Madrid. Naturally, the topic of conversation is the Cuban fiasco. One of our Spaniards makes the following remark: "The luck we had during our civil war was that the few Americans that were fighting were on the Red side...
...Madrid...
...next volumes will range from Assyria to the post-Carolingian art that flourished around Autun; by the time the $7,000,000 project is complete, virtually every place and period will have been covered. With six publishing houses in various countries involved, each volume will appear in Paris, Milan, Madrid, Munich, London, New York and eventually Tokyo. For Sumer, Malraux himself chose the 557 black-and-white and color illustrations, often sending photographers back to shoot a particular work for a second time. Once Malraux was satisfied, the photographs were dispatched to the various publishers in specially upholstered, hermetically sealed...