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...Maria de Areilza, the Count of Motrico, who has acted as Franco's ambassador to Argentina, France and the U.S. To improve "domestic relations"-meaning contacts with the Franco government-Don Juan chose Florentine Pérez Embid, a prominent Madrid University historian and member of the influential Opus Dei movement. Though the new secretariat would resign if Don Juan assumes the monarchy, in the meantime it can promote in Spain what Don Juan cannot do from exile: the image of a benevolent, progressive constitutional monarch as the best alternative to the present regime...
...considered the best British novel of World War II. In the trilogy Waugh creates in Apthorpe his greatest comic character, a Falstaff as funny, as tragic, as human as the huge original; but what matters more is that here for the first time the author accommodates in a single opus all the dominant elements of his life and art: satire, language, religion, sense of tradition, instinct for milieu. The consummation is a social history of the war that in wisdom and spaciousness and easy irony rivals and resembles the work of Trollope...
Symphony, Opus 21, is one of Webern's more interesting pieces. It is far more sonorous than most, more relaxed, and is said to be one of the best examples of Webern's orchestration of silence. (It is sometimes said that he has done with silence what Giacommetti, according to Sartre, has done with empty space.) Anyway, the appeal is more an intellectual than an emotional one. At least, I didn't notice anyone break into tears...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra performs at 8:30 tonight in Sanders Theatre. The program will consist of Vivaldi's "Concerto for Flute and Strings," Karen Monson, soloist; Webern's "Symphony Opus 21," William Conable, guest conductor; Brahm's "Piano Concerto #1," Ursula Oppens...
...describe Opus Dei Member Rafael Calvo Serer as a liberal monarchist who is a prominent opponent of the Franco regime. Calvo Serer's principal quarrel with Franco is over the timetable for restoration of the monarchy. As for his alleged liberality, in his published writings Calvo Serer has called for a monarchy in which both the Cortes (parliament) and the Council of Realm would be only advisory and could, along with the President, be overruled by the King if he so desired. He opposes universal suffrage, would outlaw political parties. Only by ultraconservative criteria can such a concept...