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WASHINGTON'S Pan American Union quietly put on view last week an exhibition calculated to raise the roof. The work of a passionate, plump and indefatigable Ecuadorian Indian named Oswaldo Guayasamin (pronounced guy-yah-sah-meait, and meaning, in Inca. "white bird flying"), it was as powerful as any painting to come out of South America in modern times. Guayasamin, 35, once studied with Mexico's late master of mordantly bitter painting, José Clemente Orozco. He has a similar social consciousness, amounting to aching rage at man's inhumanities, and a similar range of techniques, from...
...Patrón. Vicos' plight was ancient. Spanish conquistadores reduced the Inca population there (and all along the high Andes) to feudal serfdom; with independence from Spain, Peru had merely converted the fief into government property leased at about $800 a year to patrones, who got the Indian workers along with the land. The deadening centuries had stripped the Indians of all their skills, pleasures, and arts, and even of the imagination to conceive of a happier...
...relations with North Africa. A cold, intelligent member of a French Calvinist family, Soustelle entered the famed Ecole Normale Supérieure at 17, graduated at 20. An anthropologist and married to an anthropologist, he voyaged to Mexico and South America, wrote a series of outstanding books on the Inca and Aztec cultures. Politically on the left, he joined De Gaulle in London shortly after the fall of France. Later, having proved himself a ruthless and stubborn administrator, he was put in charge of the Free French secret service and counter-espionage in Algiers. His work uncovering illegal Communist Party...
Kinsey carefully explained that he was forming no further conclusions about the mores and manners of the Mochicas. He pointed out to interested Peruvians that his main studies center on the sex life of modern North Americans, but he hopes that what he learns of pre-Inca habits may throw some added light on his contemporary research...
...Newly discovered ancient Inca capital...