Word: alfaro
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rosanna Y. Alfaro '60, a playwright and author, and Daryl N. Chinn, a poet-teacher-editor, also performed their writings...
...Alfaro said that she was happy to return to Harvard to read her writing, and she noted the increased diversity of the student body...
...When I was at Radcliffe there were only three Asian-Americans in the class. It's so exciting that Harvard has changed so much," Alfaro said...
...Alfaro said poetry readings are important "because of a love of language. It's fascinating to hear four completely different styles and ways of looking at the world...
...This happened with the confluence of modernism, Marxism and nostalgia for the fresco cycles of pre-Hispanic antiquity that turned in the 1920s, under the patronage of Mexico's Minister of Education Jose Vasconcelos, into the mural movement: Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros. The special value of this show is that instead of treating these Big Three as isolated characters, it presents a dozen or more other Mexican artists of the time in some depth -- starting with the spectacularly gifted Saturnino Herran, who would certainly be as celebrated today as Rivera himself...