Word: aztec
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sblood! The University of Mexico was founded many years before Henry Hudson ever saw Manhattan Island. There is hardly a Mexican town that does not possess some church or other building that illustrates the stately architecture of the Spanish period and back of that are the wonderful relics of Aztec and Mayan architecture which was in full flower centuries before the Spanish...
...Paloma, though once tremendously popular in Mexico, was written by a Spaniard who lived in Cuba, and both it and La Cucaracha are more Cuban than Mexican in rhythm. Today most of Mexico's music is Spanish in origin. But ancient instruments dug from Aztec tombs prove that Mexico was musical long before Cortez & his Spaniards conquered...
...EDITOR DON'T BE SO ACADEMIC ABOUT JALOPY IN LETTERS (TIME, JUNE 7). ANYONE OUGHT TO KNOW THE REAL ARGUMENT LIES IN WHETHER IT IS AN EUPHEMISTIC CONTRACTION OF "DILAPIDATED" OR SPRINGS DIRECTLY FROM "GALLOP," MEANING TO MOVE BY SPRINGING LEAPS. IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH AZTEC PURGATIVE ROOTS AND SUGGEST PUNISHING ED FOR SUCH TRIPE BY MAKING HIM EAT HIS WORDS SEASONED WITH SOME JALAP AND A WELL TURNED JALOPY...
Poets and painters have swarmed over Mexico, inordinately praised its crude-colored landscapes, its dark, slow-moving Indians, its Aztec remains. They were so impressed with Mexico's cultural heritage that they helped Mexicans make the most of it. In painting, no one has done more to work out a native style than Diego Rivera. In music, no one has done so much as his good friend Carlos Chavez, the swart young mestizo who can make a full orchestra suggest swishing gourds and shrill clay pipes. Excitement ran high in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall last week when Composer...
...Francisco ("The Great Aztec") Olazabal, swarthy, plump Mexican faith-healer, rise beside their Founder, kiss him full in the mouth, declare he was bringing 50,000 Mexican followers into the lap of the Church of God of A. J. Tomlinson...