Word: aztecs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dante, and the drama from Aeschylus to Shakespeare. . . . Through these murals a New England institution has allowed a Mexican painter to satirize English-speaking traditions, spiritual, educational and academic, while forcing on the college the extremely tiresome traditions of an alien and somewhat abhorred civilization of the Toltec-Aztec cults. . . . The spectacle of New England students being expected to revere Tezcatlipoca, the Toltec divinity who was the patron of college students, with side glances of horror possibly at Huitzilopochtli, the war god . . . is probably one of the most amazing if not amusing spectacles ever presented to American college life...
...fugitives who are captured are disposed of by the "horse torture." Servants bury them alive so that only their heads show above ground, then ride over them till they are mashed to death. This wild chronicle-a combination of radical propaganda and old-fashioned "Western"-starts with shots of Aztec ruins, ends with shots of an idealized modern Mexico, symbolized by Mexico City University students in their football suits. It would be undistinguished were it not for the fact that the photography-for which Director Eisenstein and his Camera Man Edouard Tisse were equally responsible-is superb. Critics, esthetes...
...conclusive meeting was held in the 32nd story of the Aztec Tower of the Union Guardian Building. John K. McKee, representing the R. F. C., laid down the terms. The long wrangle ended. It was agreed to furnish $5,000,000 of new capital and promptly a telegram from the Comptroller of the Currency: "Due to the many complaints registered against the plan for a new bank . . . have deemed it advisable ... to appoint conservators . . . until the confusion of thought can be eliminated...
Three years after he wrote the Fountains, Respighi married one of his pupils, Elsa Olivieri Sangiacomo, a quiet, mysterious person, part Aztec. She used to compose too, but now she just sings his songs, uses her Indian intuition to help order his career. Their villa high on the outskirts of Rome is named for the second Roman poem - "The Pines...
...lowly Indian named Quauhtlatohua left his home in Cuauhtitlan to go to mass in Tlaltelolco. His name had been changed at baptism to Juan Diego. As he passed by the barren, rugged hill of Tepeyac, site of old Aztec shrines which the Spaniards had overthrown, there appeared to him, amid rainbow colors and heavenly music, a beautiful woman. It was the Virgin Mary! She addressed Juan Diego as hijo mio (my son), told him to go at once to the bishop and say that she wished a church built on the hill. Juan Diego went, but the Bishop...