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Creative Battle. Asturias' creative life, he feels, has come out of a battle-"not an armed battle but a political and civic battle." The son of a judge, he grew up under Dictator Manuel Estrada Cabrera (1898-1920), a ruthless strongman who imprisoned or murdered his political opponents and all but cut off Guatemala from the outside world. After Estrada's overthrow in 1920 came a series of military-dominated governments that were almost as bad; when Asturias published a set of anti-militaris tic articles, his family persuaded him to move to Europe for his own safety...
...five years since an airplane crash killed 106 of Atlanta's foremost cultural patrons, the city has been striving with an almost compulsive verve to rebuild civic hopes for high standing in the arts. A new rank of leaders moved up to join the survivors; in homage to the dead, the Atlanta Arts Alliance launched a drive for a $13 million cultural center (now abuilding); and the Ford Foundation gave the Atlanta Symphony $1,750,000. Last week the symphony opened its new season under the baton of a new permanent conductor, Robert Shaw. It was an auspicious start...
...other hand the corporation must depend on local authorities to supply schools, playing fields, and civic auditoriums. The Corporation is allowed to spend only $14 per person on these projects. Since most town councils are reluctant to raise taxes, the corporations must constantly pressure local officials to fulfill their obligations. Usually local authorities remain hostile for about five years until new town people take over the elected offices and new factories begin supplementing local revenues...
...capable of more than just fighting. From Costa Rica to Argentina, the region's armed forces are building roads, schools and hospitals in the long-neglected interior, stringing up lights and communication lines and bringing the peasant into the 20th century. To train the armed forces in both civic action and anti-guerrilla warfare, the U.S. has set up a counterinsurgency school in the Panama Canal Zone that has al ready turned out more than 1,000 graduates. The U.S. also sends advisers into the various countries to help. The Bolivian Rangers who captured Che were, in fact, trained...
...among the largest and smallest items on display. Both are the handiwork of the 1960s, and both show that even at the age of 85, Picasso remains astonishingly inventive. The largest works, of course, are Picasso's monuments, represented by the model for the recently installed Chicago Civic Center sculpture and a photomontage of a heroic female figure to be installed in The Netherlands. The smallest are the impish, effervescent, often forthrightly erotic metal cutouts. Brightly painted and deftly bent, they look like cubist paintings in 21 dimensions-and, by a curious coincidence, 21 dimensions is what dozens...