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...attributes as an artist, including his sometimes overweening vulgarity, were cast in a large mold. He became a symbol, the key figure in cultural transactions between North and Central America in the first half of the 20th century. He played his role for Mexico, part ambassador and part genius loci, to the hilt. His energy had a titanic quality: he covered many acres of wall in Mexico and the U.S. with his murals and left behind a huge output of easel paintings, drawings and prints. Few 20th century artists have been as popular in their own societies. None is more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Tintoretto of the Peons | 6/9/1986 | See Source »

...haunting tale called The Circular Valley, Bowles portrays an Atlájala, an anima or genius loci that can inhabit the bodies of all creatures. Local Indians know enough to stay away, but over the centuries monks come and, then, robbers and soldiers; the Atlájala is fascinated at the complexities he finds when he looks out through the eyes of men. Finally, a man and woman unhappily in love enter the valley, and the spirit enters him. It finds "a world more suffocating and painful than the Atlájala had thought possible." Within the woman, though, "each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Steps off the Beaten Path | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

What was said about the influence of the aristocrats and the old members applies equally well to the committee, especially as the two loci of power tend to overlap. In both societies the effectiveness of individual committeemen varies enormously from individual to individual. But it must be conceded that the committee is far more important at the co-op than in the longhouse. The reason for this is that the latter consists of many families, each of which is a unit of production and consumption, while at the co-op house all cooking is done on one hearth and everyone...

Author: By Peter Metcalf, | Title: Tribal Politics in Borneo and Cambridge | 4/20/1976 | See Source »

...production, and that hormones in turn influence mating and dominance. But our effort to distinguish a behavioral and a non-behavioral part of this chain does not reflect a real ontological distinction. As Spuhler (1968) correctly observes, "In some sense, most, if not all, of the many thousands of loci in the human genome are concerned with behavior." 7 Rather, the distinction between behavioral and non-behavioral traits reflects a naive, dichotomous perception of mind and body. Thus the contention of Wilson's critics that it is "an unproven assumption that genes for behavior exist" is not only incorrect...

Author: By Martin Etter, | Title: Sociobiology: A Positive View | 2/10/1976 | See Source »

Originally shunned by Boston's basketball cognoscenti when it was held at the Boston Garden, the Beanpot has enjoyed mounting popularity in the past few seasons at its four campus loci. Although the tourney has been played in the shadow of hockey's own Beanpot spectacular, last year's B.C.-Harvard final drew a crowd of 4000. Despite its place of preeminence in the Boston sporting scene, the hockey tournament drew a paltry gate of 587 spectators in its first year...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Cagers Host B.C. Eagles In Annual Beanpot Clash | 1/13/1976 | See Source »

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