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...Arab chiefs; I shall smell the desert air; I shall have tents, horses, weapons, and be free. . . ." They arrived with a museum load of African, South American and Indian bric-a-brac and five dogs-to which they soon added twelve horses, three goats, a camel, a snow-white donkey, a pet lamb and a baby panther (which the horrified peasants poisoned...
...pictures, Orozco is more poetic and lyric, Siquieros continues to be a great painter in spite of his politics." Cantú would have liked to do frescos, but says he got no commissions from the Mexican Government because he refused to paint Christ with the head of a donkey saints with the heads of pigs. "Although I am not very clerical," says he, "I do not go so far." Merida, who lives in Mexico City, and Cantú, who plans to return there soon, both hope that Mexico's President Avila Camacho will be partial to non-political Mexican...
...DONKEY INSIDE-Ludwig Bemelmans-Viking...
...Donkey Inside is the book. Technically a travel book, it is as far superior to the type as Sterne's Sentimental Journey. It uses the sights & scenes of Ecuador as a medium for the exercises of a quick eye and an original mind. Bemelmans is the kind of person to whom strange, delightful things always happen...
...Donkey Inside is written with beauty, sympathy and control. Its essential quality is the gentle courage of comedy. Blending facts and imagination at the author's fancy, it is incidentally as deft and intimate a portrait as a country could ever hope...