Word: galvanize
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...sons. He spent the next three years rubbing shoulders with the muralist Diego Rivera, dodging the postrevolutionary turmoil and making pictures under the Mexican sun that specifies every object it falls upon. Among them were a series of vivid head shots, like his startling portrait of Manuel Hernandez Galvan, 1924, that use the subjects' plain vitality to confound the impassivity one expects from monumental figures. The Mexican portraits show that Weston had absorbed the principles delivered to him by Alfred Stieglitz, words that Weston later summarized as a "maximum of detail with a maximum of simplification...
Nonetheless Mexico's Defense Minister, General Felix Galvan Lopez, in May took the extraordinary step of publicly denying that a military coup was contemplated. Said Galvan...
...Galvan, a reknowned socialist, said the current monarchy in Spain is an "instrument of transition" from the previous dictatorship to an "advanced democratic state." The problem is setting the limits of this "advanced state," he added...
...Spain has not been able to establish a contemporary society, such as those in neighboring European countries because there is an incapacity to understand change," Galvan said, adding, "there seems to be an aesthetic satisfaction in Spain for the underdeveloped...
...Galvan's lecture, "Reflections of an Intellectual and Politician," was received with great enthusiasm by a primarily Hispanic audience...