Word: amores
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...from private donors, 1,500,000 pesos from the government. Then he spent eight years directing the building of the institute. Each room, he insisted, must be as comfortable as in a modern luxury hotel. Its surgeries glittered with the world's best equipment. Its motto: Amor scientiaque insermant cordi (Let love and science serve the heart...
Mexicans are tolerant of amor, and few higher compliments can be paid a gentleman than to call him "very manly." But Alemán and his pals got going so fast in their dizzy ride that the elder statesmen of the party decided things were getting out of hand. In Mexican politics, such former Presidents as Manuel Avila Camacho, and the enigmatic Lázaro Cárdenas, holed up in his western mountains, exercise great power in the background. When the time came to choose Alemán's successor, the party leaders did not interfere with Alem...
...Orleans' Municipal Auditorium, as the audience sat listening to Guest Conductor Leopold Stokowski lead the Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra through Manuel de Falla's El Amor Brujo, the unmistakable Dixieland beat of a jazz orchestra scorched through from an adjoining ballroom. Stokowski stabbed the air with his baton, stopped his orchestra and said: "New Orleans is the only city in the world where you can buy one ticket and get two concerts." Then he retired to the wings until the competing orchestra, playing for a pre-Mardi Gras carnival ball, had stopped. Said the jazz-band leader later...
Other pieces on the program will be "Por un Amor," two choruses from "II Matrimonio Secreto, choruses from "The Beggar's Opera," and a Czech folk song, "Magdlein im Walde." College songs, as usual, will wind things...
...surprise in the cast: the program's "Louisa Kinlock," who sang the minor role of Amor, turned out to be Ethel Barrymore Colt...