Word: indianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...interested in your July 29 story on Artist Fretwell's Holy Family in modern dress and Reader Afton Wynn's later comments on primitive paintings of the Madonna (with an Indian face) on the walls of Mexican churches. Why shouldn't a Christ, a Madonna or angels look like Indians or Negroes, or whatever? Great medieval artists represented members of the Holy Family in clothes of the artist's own period. Christ can appear in all shapes...
...shocked with English Artist Fretwell's Holy Family in modern dress [July 29] nearly so much as I was surprised at seeing paintings of the Madonna, with an Indian face, on the walls of Mexican churches. If Mary can have an Indian face in Mexico. I don't see why England can't have her with a wind-blown haircut...
...conquistadors had no sooner begun cutting their way through the jungles of South America than they found themselves suffering casualties from Indian darts tipped with a potent, paralyzing poison. But a century passed before Sir Walter Raleigh in 1595 carried to Europe the first samples of "urari"-a variant of curare. Years later botanists classified the shrubs from which curare is made,* and the brilliant French physiologist, Claude Bernard, in 1856 made an important discovery: from samples supplied by Brazil's Emperor Pedro II he showed that curare paralyzes its victims by blocking transmission of impulses from nerve...
Though the socialist-minded Indian government viewed Graham with undisguised distaste, coolly turned down his suggestion for a five-year tax moratorium on small new businesses, a dozen prominent private Indian businessmen eagerly offered to co-invest some $140,000. The Punjab National Bank offered to investigate loan candidates free of charge, promised to consider later loan requests from Graham selectees...
...knows better than Free Enterpriser Graham that his loans will be only a drop in the bottomless Indian bucket, while perhaps 20% of the borrowers are likely to fail in their businesses. But as Graham moved on to the Middle East at week's end to continue his interrupted family vacation, his open-handed demonstration had been worth a hundred propaganda pronouncements on U.S. capitalism. "You don't have to be a millionaire to put up $5,000," said Graham, hoping to encourage other Americans into backing small Asian entrepreneurs. Said Indian Hotelman Mohan Oberoi: "Send...