Word: cortese
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The building is a stony reminder that Mexico has been trying to digest imported culture since the days of Hernando Cortes, and has been having a continuous bellyache in the process. But inside the museum's marble halls last week, work men were uncrating the paintings of one Mexican...
A Curious Spectacle. He attacked and denounced as he wished-rebelling against Alfonso's tottering monarchy ("Spaniards, your state is no more-reconstruct it") and denouncing the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera ("this curious spectacle"). Finally, he founded a political party made up of intellectuals-the League for the...
In the shiny, modernistic office building in Mexico City's Avenida Morelos, the men of the Department of Soil Conservation studied their maps, graphs and statistics, concluded that the chances were small that the Mexican land would feed its people well. Four hundred years ago Cortes had reported that...
In Cortes' time, the Indians planted their crops in 16 inches of topsoil. Now they count themselves lucky if they plant in six. Corn, grown year after year on the same plots, has sapped the goodness from the soil. In the current Harper's Magazine, William Vogt, chief...
Captain from Castile (20th Century-Fox] is a big, bright-colored packaging of Samuel Shellabarger's best-selling historical novel about the era of Cortes. Tyrone Power keeps a medium-tight rein on his passionate Spanish nature; Lee J. Cobb is a boozer who likes disguises; Cesar Romero-a...