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Many nineteenth century artists began their careers as sign painters or carpenters and never had much formal training in art. Often this lack of instruction freed them from a rigid approach. Some explored the country searching for ever more dramatic landscapes. Frederick Edwin Church traveled to South America and painted enormous canvasses of the dense jungle beside the Andes, Painting seemed an adventure of luck in finding the right seene. Artists must have carried their easels for miles before stopping before a view and setting up equipment among the leaves. On another large canvas Church painted the sunrise spreading redness...
...Spreti's cold-blooded murder sent a chill through the diplomatic corps in Latin America-and elsewhere. Since the beginning of 1970, eight such kidnapings or attempts have occurred in Latin America. All the victims but Von Spreti were freed, most after as many as 20 political prisoners had been released. But nobody is likely to forget Von Spreti's fate-or how U.S. Ambassador John Gordon Mein was gunned down on a Guatemala City street nearly two years ago as he tried to escape an ambush. Indeed, even as Guatemalans were searching for Von Spreti, U.S. Consul...
...ceremoniously with their captors. Then Yamamura boarded the plane, after which the remaining 49 passengers were released. The free passengers were quickly flown to Fukuoka, where they were greeted with joyous cries of "Banzai" by friends and relatives. Flight 351 flew on to Pyongyang. Next day the North Koreans freed the plane, its crew and hostage Yamamura. They flew home, abandoning the samurai skyjackers to a doubtful welcome: Pyongyang Radio was already referring to them as "Trotskyite criminals...
...there were great black saints and there were great black churches. The Man systematically killed your language, killed your culture, tried to kill your soul, tried to blot you out-but somewhere along the way he gave us Christianity, and gave it to us to enslave us. But it freed us-because we understood things about it, and we made it work in ways for us that it never worked...
Like many black poets today, Emanuel reflects revolutionary attitudes most passionately expressed by Malcolm X and Stokely Carmichael. The poets also developed their ideas from the writings of the late black psychiatrist Frantz Fanon. Basically, Fanon stated, Africa and the rest of the third world must be freed from the colonialism that developed color consciousness. Past humiliations can only be washed away through violence. Political freedom will bring about a rejoicing in a new black identity...