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...Price was so heavily costumed in bolts of sparkling cloth that she looked like a junior-sized pyramid herself; it was a wonder that she eould sing at all, though sing she did, and her burnished voice never sounded better. At the top of their form, too, were Basso Justino Diaz as Antony and Tenor Thomas as Caesar. Composer Barber's setting for Shakespeare's text was notable chiefly for an orchestration built of conflict ing clouds of moody, often eerie thun-derbursts of sound, punctuated with enough jutting exclamations of dissonance to label it contemporary, and Conductor...
...people were in a room and argued for something -anything-Orozco would take the opposite side. His tolerance for fascism stemmed from our adherence to Communism, no more . . . Orozco's only 'constant' was his bitter hatred of anything having to do with religion." ¶ Biographer Justino Fernandez: "Orozco is hard on God at the Day of Judgment, because he felt that the punishments meted out to sinful men were too severe." ¶ Dealer Inés Amor: "He hated mankind, if ever a man did. 'All Indians,' he used to say, 'are ugly...
Said Uruguay's Justino de Arechaga: "We voted for the resolution, but without joy." Delegates from Argentina and Mexico, who abstained, felt that the declaration "weakens the principle of nonintervention." Even those who had warmly supported the U.S. resolution in the debate privately expressed misgivings...
Serious critics like Justino Fernandez took the exhibition seriously, granted that mastery of medium was apparent, but complained that U.S. painters seemed to lack the common ideal of experience or perception needed to elevate their work to authentic art. One writer thought only the water colors saved the show. Diego Rivera, massively present at the opening, complained at the absence of Negro, Indian, Chinese influence-which he considers the most important elements in North American civilization...