Word: diego
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mexico's greatest modern painters, old (70) Francisco Goitia, sat beside deathbeds to catch the last gasp of unwilling models. Diego Rivera sketched during all-night vigils in the Tarascan graves near Tzintzuntzan. And David Siqueiros was perhaps at his best when quartering and Duco-painting a heroic Cuauhtemoc in his death throes. Last week the U.S. got a good look at the work of a new Mexican artist, Jose Luis Cuevas, who sometimes plays truant from the embalmer's school of Mexican...
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Hulking Gregor Piatigorsky, topflight cello virtuoso, would like to see younger musicians get ahead, too. But last week in San Diego, where he paused between concert tours, Cellist Piatigorsky took a swipe at an old method of helping young artists-musical competitions. Said he: "I shall never again be a contest judge. Too often they are downright absurd. Why insult and discourage 14, let us say, to honor or help one?" The last time he judged a contest. Piatigorsky said, he and his fellow judge, Violinist Jascha Heifetz, heard a singer, a flutist, a clarinetist and a composer...
Harry C. Steinmetz, fired from San Diego State College on Feb. 5 for refusing to say whether or not he was a Communist, thought his troubles were over when immediately after his dismissal, Cornell offered him a summer teaching...
...January 28, the Board of Education by a 6-0 vote, decided to recommend Steinmetz' dismissal from San Diego State College...