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...Garden prepared lavish sets and drew on all its artistic and mechanical resources. Sir John Gielgud got his first crack at opera direction. Mezzo-Soprano Blanche Thebom (with all six feet of her hair unwound) was cast in the ear-rending role of Dido, Queen of Carthage, and Conductor Rafael Kubelik presided over a 150-man orchestra and an assortment of behind-the-scenes instrumentalists and vocalists for offstage choruses and flourishes. On a lofty bridge in the flies, 50 singers, an extra conductor, five harpists and 15 brass instrumentalists waited tensely for musical cues relayed to them on monitor...
Probing Mind. In Mexico City, Rafael Duenas tried unsuccessfully to commit suicide by stabbing himself with an ice pick after writing a note: "I killed myself to see what it felt like...
...impressive, in fact, that CBS rushed to rebroadcast this week the suspenseful full-hour reconstruction of how Columbia Lecturer Jesús de Galíndez, a Basque, was kidnaped from Manhattan, spirited out of the country and apparently murdered because of his opposition to Dominican Republic Dictator Rafael Trujillo (TIME, April...
After four hours of heated talk, they made up their minds: Rojas had to go. Army Commander in Chief Rafael Navas Pardo was chosen to break the news to the President. Shortly after midnight he was shown into the study at the presidential palace. "My general," he said, "you must leave the country. Things cannot go on like this." At first Rojas refused to believe it. But three hours later, after conversations with other army commanders and Cardinal Luque's personal representative, he yielded. Rojas asked only that his War Minister and old friend, Major General Gabriel Paris...
...romantic meter (the lines and construction in his Romancero Gitano are very like EI Cid) with inflamed Gongorisms from the seventeenth century and scenes from contemporary Andalusian life was not the influence of Dali's artistic personality, nor the surrealist attempts of his not-so-friendly literary rival Rafael Alberti. We must recognize now with the settling effects of two decades since Lorca's death, that he took on this radically different form only as a means to express his similarly different subject matter. It should be apparent that had Lorca's arrival in America merely coincided with his abandonment...