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...noisiest-hard, galvanic, rasping-as if Composer Chavez were trying to make up for having allowed his tropical dancers a comparatively pleasant tango. A cultural renaissance is having its start in obsidian Mexico. Rivera represents the painter's side. His frescoes all about Mexicans have been chosen to adorn governmental walls in Mexico City. Composer Chavez, director of the National Conservatory of Music and of Mexico City's leading symphony orchestra, heads the group trying now to develop an authentic Mexican music from purely native sources. In his own music Chavez makes the winds of the modern orchestra...
...decoration as well as illustration, the French cuts are perhaps the best in the sixteenth century. Decorative borders frequently adorn the page and cuts and text unite to form a more complete whole than in other countries, due perhaps to the influence of Geoffrey Tory. A large number of books shown are French. Among the most interesting may be mentioned "Entree ... Henri II ... en la ville ... de Paris", Paris, 1549, containing a fine equestrian portrait by Jean Goujon; Aesop, "Les Fables", Paris, 1542, a unique first edition; Homer, Les Dix Premiers Livres de I'lliade", Paris, 1545; Ovid, La Metamorphose...
...Harkness and Mr. Duke passed by on the other side, as far as Piedmont College in George is concerned. No heraldic crests adorn the converted livery stable which serves as its recitation hall or the regenerated Chautauqua hall which is its chapel. Professor's get part of their meagre salaries in the form of peaches, potatoes, hams, or firewood from the college farm, and a complicated system of barter enables a farmer to pay his son's bill with so many quarts worth of tuition...
Please be more careful in future, because I count on TIME to tell me all the knowworthy facts about men who adorn its covers...
...Kahn led an expedition into South America. Almost 200 years ago, African slaves in Dutch Guiana revolted, went into the bush to establish an Africo-South American civilization. Today the tribes live in thatched huts, cut designs into their flesh. Cowrie shells from the East Indies are used to adorn amulets as in Africa. The tribes speak "talkie-talkie," a mixture of Dutch, English, Portuguese, French and African. The Boni tribe in French Guiana has fallen under the influence of missionaries more than the Dutch tribes. Many of them wear trousers. Dr. Kahn brought back 300 specimens of woodcarving...