Word: jose
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Columbia, Secretary of State George C. Marshall also got an honorary LL.D. The General was in cosmopolitan company at Princeton. Among his honored fellows: Historian Arnold J. Toynbee (honorary LL.D.), Cinemactor Jimmy Stewart (honorary M.A.), New York Park Commissioner Robert Moses (honorary LL.D.), Broadway Producer-Director-Actor Jose Ferrer (honorary...
...public quarrels over art and politics were forgotten. Triple-chinned Diego Rivera's habitual garrulity was reduced to a murmured "magnifico, magnifico" as he passed from picture to picture. Fiery David Alfaro Siqueiros, a spotlight lover himself, knew well whose turn it was this night. He kept drawing Jose Clemente Orozco back into the limelight each time the shy, shabby little one-armed man tried to shuffle off to a corner...
Repulsive Cockroaches. There were small, but not still, voices that were not convinced. In Mexico City's Universal appeared an explosive article by Father Jose Cantu Corro, a painting priest. Roared Father Cantu: "Modern artists . . . their 'ideology' is to give culture to the ugly as if to do away with all true beauty and prostitute the people. Because of this, the belly-bursting paintings with horrible huge heads: because of this the carnic puppets. It is impossible to qualify the abysses to which these repulsive cockroaches have descended. With brooms that have been put into the filthy...
...which Schubert wrote at 31), Le Sacre du Printemps, which Stravinsky wrote at 30. It was the first time that 72-year-old Serge Koussevitzky had ever let a guest conduct his Boston Orchestra for a whole concert in New York. Carnegie Hall was so packed that even Pianist Jose Iturbi had to stand...
What gave M-G-M an even hungrier feeling was the sensational sale (some 800,000) of Pianist Jose Iturbi's recording of Chopin's Polonaise in A Flat from A Song To Remember. But most of the gravy from this platter went to RCA, which made it. M-G-M decided to cash in itself on recordings by its stars...