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...book's focus is a dim figure from history, a Spanish renegade named Guerrero, who tried to shake the Maya princes from their fatalism and organize resistance to the invaders. The enigma of Guerrero is not fully resolved at the book's end; he is a less complete character than that other Stacton enigma, the Pharaoh Ikhnaton of the brilliant On a Balcony (TIME, Sept. 6. 1959). The trouble may be that philosophical novelists are, in their weakest moments, tract-writing zealots. Stacton's message in this book is that the proper study of doomed...
Late in the week, a fissure 150 yds. by 5 yds. was discovered in the state of Guerrero, about 200 miles south of Mexico City. Smoke still poured ominously from the crack. Frightened peons believed not only that it marked the source of the earthquake, but also that it might turn into an erupting volcano and cause further shocks. The still-disturbed earth shook Mexico City with nearly 100 tremors during the week. Although many of them were so slight that they could be sensed only on a seismograph, the worst one was two-thirds as strong as last fortnight...
...situation, he found Mexico full of peculiar dogs, more or less hairless, and of various shapes and sizes. The few to be found in other countries were also nonstandardized. This is not what a breeder wants, so Wright made three long trips to the primitive parts of tropical Guerrero and managed to buy eight Xolos that matched old pictures and descriptions of the genuine Aztec breed. He found that in remote regions they are still used as hot-water bottles, but he was not offered any roasted puppies...
...lesser culture, that of the primitive peoples in the little-explored state of Guerrero on Mexico's Pacific watershed, is a new favorite among collectors. On show this week at Manhattan's André Emmerich gallery was the first exhibit of art objects from the Mezcala River basin. So little regarded that until a few years ago they could be bought for as little as $15, choice examples now bring up to $500 and over...
...darkly romantic Quartet moved several critics to high praise; it also proved that Composer Gould is still several giant steps behind Pianist Gould in accomplishments. Glenn Gould was 3½ when he first sat down to play. By 10 he was studying with the Toronto conservatory's Alberto Guerrero; at 14 he performed with the Toronto Symphony. Since then, his life has been rigidly circumscribed by the demands of his musical career. In his rare free hours (he practices and reads scores eight hours a day before a performance), Gould studies other composers (major influences: Schoenberg, Anton Bruckner, Richard...