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...wake of Dictator Francisco Franco's government "crisis" and Cabinet shuffle (TIME, March 11), the café wits in Spain last week were passing around a punning version of the old Latin saw, Finis coronat opus (The end crowns the work). Crisis coronat Opus, they said, and the Opus they meant was Opus Dei-a little-known organization of Roman Catholic priests and laymen which, it was rumored, had nine or ten members in Franco's new 18-man Cabinet...
This was an exaggeration. Though Opus Dei members do not advertise their membership, they may not conceal it, and the new Cabinet contains only one full-fledged member (Commerce Minister Alberto Ul-lastres) and three "cooperators"-Mariano Navarro Rubio (Finance), Cirilo Canovas (Agriculture), and Lieut. General Camilo Alonso Vega (Interior). But this was enough to focus a spotlight on the organization long regarded among suspicious Spanish Jesuits as "the White Masons...
...appeared three days later, the big surprise was not the points award in the Monarchist-Falangist struggle but the appointment of respected Economist Pedro Gual Villalbí to take charge of Spain's downsliding economy. Spaniards noted that four of the 18 Cabinet members belong to Opus Dei, an ascetic Roman Catholic secular order which leans more on the Vatican than on the controversy-torn Spanish clerical hierarchy and has long campaigned against graft in government. Said Franco: "They bring a New Era to Spain...
...concert given by the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra in Sanders last Friday night was disappointing. The only part of the program that was musically acceptable was Frances Steiner's playing of the Saint-Saens Violoncello Concerto, Opus 55. Her tone was usually warm and clear, and the technically difficult passages were executed with a degree of ease. Unfortunately, soloist and orchestra did not always pay sufficient attention to each other...
...strings were joined by winds and harp (the latter quite a rarity on a Harvard stage) for Gabriel Faure's suite for Pelleas et Melisande, Opus 80. Faure was unsurpassed in the combination of subtle harmonies and delicate colorings; and the four movements of this suite contain some of his most exquisite writing, such as the shimmering muted violins in "La Fileuse" and the tinges of modal harmony in "Mort de Melisande." Everything here is achieved through understatement, through minute shadings within a restrained gamut. The resulting "parfum imperissable," to borrow the title of one of Faure's songs...