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Meanwhile 275 of the school's 800 girls signed a petition demanding private showers. Cried some of their parents: "[The common shower system] is a step towards Communism." An earnest editorial writer in Aztec, student weekly, hotly retorted: "With every advance from filthiness to cleanliness, prudery raised its ugly head. . . ." This week the trial was adjourned for three months to let the Board of Education think the whole thing over...
...term "expressionistic" can be applied to any one of the Aztec pieces entitled "Standing Figure Of A Man" as well as to anything done in this century or the last. But there is a difference: the Aztec and Mayan works have innate expressionism whereas most works produced by contemporary men have a formal expressionism. The former arises from within and is neither a commentary nor judgment upon actual people or events; the latter, that which is prevalent in some circles today, carries with it the personal condemnation or approbation of the artist concerning everything imaginable, and this opinion is imposed...
...genius of the Mayan and Aztec artists cannot be refuted when one brings to mind the finely wrought gold articles, the sensitively constructed miniature animals, and the suitability of the material used for the object created. This early art is sturdy, grotesque, and static. Yet it contains a certain animating power which is so subtly interwoven with the actual material that its effect is tenacious and clinging rather than sudden. There is in it a silent sort of tension which is capable of producing a response within the mind of the spectator, a response which is only communicable by means...
...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...