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...power during the Civil War and has been a major source of his political strength ever since. The second is a shadowy group of technocrats who belong to or sympathize with a Roman Catholic organization of laymen and priests known as the Sacerdotal Society of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei. It was Opus Dei last week that gained the Franco patrimony. At least ten of the 19 members of the new Cabinet are associated with it in some...
...Opus Dei (the Work of God) might also be called Octopus Dei. Most of its lay members are professional men who pledge to strengthen their Christian lives by improving the world around them. They accomplish this in part by appointing fellow members to key government and commercial posts. Opus Dei adherents are known to control almost all of Spain's banking and a large share of its communications media. "They have the frying pan by the handle and the handle as well," runs a Spanish expression, meaning that members have both power and the will...
...Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco, who is Vice President and one of the few men Franco really trusts. He is also the probable choice for Premier under a restored monarchy. El Caudillo apparently listened when Carrero Blanco and López Rodó pointed out to him that the competent Opus Dei technocrats would do less boat-rocking than the Falangists. As a result, technocrats got key posts in the new Cabinet announced last week. Gregorio López Bravo, 45, the former Minister of Industry, was promoted to Foreign Minister. Technocrats also took over the finance, commerce, industry, housing, information...
Terrence McNally, another funny playwright, is the author of the second half of the bill. Next . His brief opus is the story of a 48-year-old man who is mistakenly called in for an induction physical. The physical, conducted by an inhuman army nurse, reduces the man, an already sad individual, to a totally demoralized lump of soggy flesh...
After an interminable intermission came Dvorak's Quintet for Piano and Strings in A Major, opus 81. Czechoslovakia may be under someone's thumb but Czech music is very much alive. This gorgeous piece was very well played. The cellist distinguished himself with a beautiful, full, resonant opening and the ensemble played with much more rhythmic unity and dynamic cohesion. Walter Trampler was superb throughout the Dvorak. There was an evident feeling for the ebb and flow of the beautiful melodies, lines which sing and soar over the often complex texture of this magnificent quintet. The new quality in their...