European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 16, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 18 the stars and stripes saturday november 16, 1985 the talk of Spain by Sarah Nicholson United press International p it a spaniard at a cafe table with two listeners and he can Lind a solution to the mos complicated National problem a Madrid chronicler once  a gift of gab and Bent Lor thrashing out events Over Coffee Madrilejos ate bringing new life to the City s cafe society and catching up on Lour decades of silence under the rightist dictatorship of Francisco Franco. The Tertulia sitting and talking at a cafe goes Back to the 18th Century and Many historians say Spanish history cannot be written without taking the custom into account most of the great talkers either went underground or into exile when Franco came to Power. The Tertulia went on but lost its cutting Edge said Jose Maria Fontana. 42, a Madrid civil servant who remembers the years before Franco died in 1975 when All but bullfights and soccer were taboo As topics of cafe talk. Now we Are coming up for air. The further away we Are from the dictatorship the More the Tertulia is taking its proper place in City he he said. The Gran Gate de gluon where Ernest Hemingway once held Forth on bulls and literature has set the style for the revival. Its red velvet divans Marble top tables and Oak panelled Walls have drawn intellectuals artists and politicians Tor nearly a Century. For a spaniard a cafe is a Home away from Home. He expects Comfort and the right to do As he likes said Jose Lopez de Brito. Co owner of the cafe on Madrid s tree lined Castellana Boulevard. When he Sells Down the table and the chairs around it become his private properly and the time he spends there is his own decision. To Many clients the gluon is More than a cafe it is a habit. But for me it is a habit  said Lopez who turned Down an american Bank s offer of $3 million to buy the cafe. I know what time of Day it is by who is sitting  the Uljon s Day begins with the Bankers and while Collar workers who sit alone at tables and peruse the newspapers. At mid Oming writers and painters meet for Coffee and then an aperitif. Some people sit nursing one Contee All afternoon. It s a Spanish custom. What can you do they stay As Many hours As they  said Lopez. A waiter must be imperturbable he added recalling an occasion on Rome s via Veneto when he was asked to order another drink or leave. I was offended. Any spaniard would  the gluon s More formal Lert Aliantes including several socialist ministers judges soccer stars painters and bullfighter arrive regularly at 5 in the afternoon. I the summer months the cafe s outdoor Terrace stays open until 3 a.m., with modish teen agers families with Young children and Habi tues talking and sitting out the City swelter Over iced drinks. Many Gijon clients come to see and be seen. Novelist Fransco umbral. In his  work the night i arrived at the cafe gluon. Said we knew we were no Ono in the Street and we went to the gluon to Teal we were something.  but a cafe is not the place for the famous to bask in the glow of Public adulation according to Lopez. The irony is that if someone famous walks in people Don t look up. They go on talking. We Are very begrudging in recognizing Fame. Even when Hemingway sat Here talking All night people barely looked his Way. They continued locked in their own conversations or pretended to  accent on new York by Jerry Schwartz associated press dese dems and dose Guys beware. Mayor Edward i. Koch Hopes to Boot Yaw pronunciations from Heah to a  mayor whose new York accent i rather pronounced and whose most Amous question is How m i Doln has called upon schools Chancellor Nathan Quonones to do something to improve the diction of teachers and students. Koch said that though his English is acceptable it is not the very Best. I m not asking that a child be required to speak the King s English but rather sufficiently Well to apply for a Job. There have to be  he was appalled he said by teachers he encountered in City High schools who said axed when they meant  the mayor recalled the exercise that changed Eliza do Olillie from a Cockney Flower girl to a lady in my fair lady. Perhaps he said the new program should be called the rain in Spain Falls mainly on the  in Brooklyn where Broo Lynese is the Semi official language Borough president Howard Golden agreed something should be done. We have to be understood. If we Are to compete for jobs he said. But does the sleet in Queens fall clearly on the sleaze and Given the distance Between Kings county and the King s English can new Yonkese be cured any accent can be changed said Norman Isaacson chairman of the department of speech and theater at Lehman College. Isaacson does not believe axed is necessarily . To compare a new York accent to one in California is to compare chinese food prepared one Way or another both Are equally valid in their own Region he said. Margaret Mannox Flynn a lecturer in speech at Brooklyn College says new York s dialects and accents Are results of a Rich cultural  each wave of immigrant contributed new englander who arrived after the revolution changed Mother to Motiah the Irish changed going to Gold and this to Dos the italians changed last to  in the Early Days of movies and television the accent from the Mouths of Streetwise mugs generally played by the bowery boys or William Bendix. Who often met at Toldy told Street and told Avenue was a comic set piece. Girl became Goll oif became Earl and the confusion was accentuated. When Brooklyn dodgers Pitcher Walte Hoyl was injured the tabloid headline read Hoyt  but the newsboys shouted Hurt  i was brought up in that Era said Golden. Some people say i speak in a form of Broo Lynese myself. I Don t think it s a stigma in any  but it can be a hindrance to Job seekers. Isaacson said. And As a result of the spread of accent less English by television i d say tidy told Street is almost a myth now. It May be disappearing. That was really cultural and interesting. 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