Word: diego
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lowly Indian named Quauhtlatohua left his home in Cuauhtitlan to go to mass in Tlaltelolco. His name had been changed at baptism to Juan Diego. As he passed by the barren, rugged hill of Tepeyac, site of old Aztec shrines which the Spaniards had overthrown, there appeared to him, amid rainbow colors and heavenly music, a beautiful woman. It was the Virgin Mary! She addressed Juan Diego as hijo mio (my son), told him to go at once to the bishop and say that she wished a church built on the hill. Juan Diego went, but the Bishop...
...culture are based entirely on ignorance and an almost deliberate perversity. But to dwell on the intellectual absurdity of a theological doctrine is as irrelevant, to an understanding either of the doctrine itself or of religion in general, as ridicule of the linear distortions of El Greco or Diego Ribera would be to an understandings of art. These distortions must of course, be studied, and may be laughed at, but not at the expense of the deeper meaning. That there is any deeper meaning seems to have escaped certain local "theologians." Lynn F. White...
...yacht Camargo, carrying Julius Fleischmann, yeast scion, his wife & two small children and three friends on a two-year cruise of the world. To their astonishment the Fleischmann party found signs of life ashore, discovered the abandoned camp of three shipwrecked sailors whose yawl West Wind sailed from San Diego last December. A note stated that the castaways had struck into the interior 48 hr. earlier in search of food because they had exhausted the supply of coconuts near the beach, and that they would return about Nov. 4. The Camargo circled the island, firing her one-pound gun, blowing...
...view last week at San Francisco's California School of Fine Arts was the latest wall work of Mexico's Diego Rivera, famed, fat and 40. As you look at the tropicolored mural, 45 ft. by 35 ft., your eye is immediately drawn to a focal point - Muralist Diego Rivera's plump posterior squashed comfortably down on a plank. The whole picture epitomizes some of the arts and industries of the U.S. Upon a great scaffolding several artisans are at work besides Diego Rivera, who is painting a huge central figure, symbolical of them all. Rivera holds...
...find" ten years ago, Diego Rivera now enjoys the honors which the world only occasionally is pleased to heap upon a living genius. Officially the trumpets were sounded in his praise two years ago when the Fine Arts Medal of the American Institute of Architects was given him for his work in Mexico City's National Preparatory School and Ministry of Education (TIME, May 26, 1929). A huge, roly-poly man, he sometimes works 16 hours a day. Once he exhausted himself, fell off his scaffold, split his head...