Word: bolivar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Utrillo's Revenge. Tate planned his treat as a show place for living painters. But there were a few reaches into the past by one director, who could not stand the way some living artists were working. Cherubic James Bolivar Manson, who was director from 1930 to 1938, once inspected two lumpish sculptures by Hans Arp and Brancusi at the request of British customs officials and advised them not to classify such horrors as art. (He finally reconsidered and the sculptures were let in.) Manson also once noted in a catalogue that Painter Maurice Utrillo was "a confirmed dipsomaniac...
...Including three in the U.S.: Bolivar, N.Y., Mo., Tenn...
...Caldas send several thousand emigrants a year into the Valle del Cauca. The Vallenses themselves prefer the valleys and leave the slopes to the immigrants from the north. To the southeast, Antioquian peasants are settling the virgin mountainsides of Tolima. In the north, they have overflowed into Choco and Bolivar, and control much of Bolivar's cattle industry. Of the 3,000,000 Colombians of Antioquian descent, only 1,300,000 live in Antioquia...
...Medellinenses: "In a generation we will have skimmed the cream of economic opportunities in Colombia. After that we will recreate the Gran Colombia (Simon Bolivar's old dream of a united Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador), which the stupid Bogotanos have tried patching together again with flowery speeches and poetry, but which can be sutured only with trade and industry. And then undoubtedly we will draw in Peru, before inquiring into possibilities further south. Half a continent will not be too much elbow room for us." Argentines might be annoyed to know it, but Medellinenses do not take too seriously...
...house which California's Mills College built for him after he went there in 1940, a gloomy Jewish refugee from Vichyfranee. He has taught composition to college girls in the mornings, composed in privacy during the afternoons. In none of his American scores (including an opera called Bolivar, the symphony, five concertos and some chamber music) is there much trace of U.S. influence ("My only influences are French and I remain true to them").* He is now hard at work on a Third Symphony, commissioned by the French National Radio, which he will conduct next October in Paris. What...