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...they had enough leisure to make many purely artistic objects, some of no recognizable use. Their carvings are vaguely akin to Eskimo work but so sophisticated and elaborate as to indicate a relation with some centre of advanced culture - perhaps Japan or southern Siberia -certainly older than the Aztec or Mayan...
There were also a few Mexican artists of ability who had never paid much attention to politics. Two of these last week had one-man shows in Manhattan. They were 48-year-old Carlos Merida, who painted cactus and Aztec idols before Rivera did and 32-year-old Expatriate Federico Cantú, who dwells in Greenwich Village...
...court stood a plaster replica of The Meeting of the Waters. Outside the entrance pranced the equally famous bronze Folke Filbyter equestrian statue (original in Linköping, Sweden), its carefully matured green patina turned a soupy grey by orange floodlights. Inside, Tritons, mermaids, strong-faced Nordic mythological characters, Aztec-and Assyrian-looking monoliths, squirmed and writhed with the power and suppressed energy that only a master sculptor can give to inanimate stone and bronze...
Imagine the Rockettes filing into New Lecture Hall-Harvard Stadium transformed into an Aztec hot dog stand--a football team which pulls the line out of the game because they get in the road of the backs--and you have Pottawatomic University at stop Gap, New Mexico, the cultural center of our great south-West. This is the setting of George Abbot's play, which--amply supplied with Hart-Rodgers songs, oh-so-pretty coeds, and nearly half the gags good for a laugh--is well worth seeing...
...pattern of reformers and optimists, the cause-&-effect patterns of rationalists. He sees each culture-Classical, Chinese, Arabian, etc.-as an organic entity which is born, flourishes, wanes, dies, like plants and animals. As organisms, cultures have a uniform morphology, except where accident intrudes (as in the ruin of Aztec culture by a band of adventurers). Lifetime of a culture is about 1,500 years. Western culture of 1940 is at about the same stage of its life cycle as the Egyptian of 1600 B.C., Chinese of 250 B.C., Classical of 100 B.C. For proof Spengler waved his learned pointer...