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...dedicated battler for democracy in Latin America all his life. Puerto Rico's Governor Luis Munoz Marin traveled from San Juan to Chicago last week to call attention to a shortcoming of the Alliance for Progress at an A.F.L.-C.I.O. national conference. "What deeply troubles me," said Munoz. "is the seeming lack of emotional commitment in Latin America toward this great and historical venture. The economic body is being gradually nourished, but the heart...
...Marin's view, there is only one group in Latin America that can make the Alliance work. "That group," he said, "is what I call the Democratic Left." Left of what? "In Latin America, left usually means left of reaction, left of feudalism, left of exploitation. I would call the Democratic Left in Latin America the group which seeks social advances and higher living standards for all the people in a framework of freedom and consent...
...earliest paintings were rather routine seascapes; the last eleven seemed to anticipate the expressionism of Emil Nolde. It was the paintings in between that interested art historians most. Just as Germany has its Russian-born Kandinsky; just as France has Gustave Moreau; and just as the U.S. has Marin and Arthur Dove, so Sweden now has its entry in the great international game of whose artists got into the abstract act first...
...after Hurricane, finished in 1938, Marin showed the water still at boiling point but gave his textured waves a solidity that adds weight and menace to their churnings. In Morning Scene, painted eleven years later, Marin broke up the scene with bold black lines that are almost calligraphic. The mountains become a series of Ms; the harsh foreground is a powerful scribble. The right angle poised in the sky, while extending the mountainous skyline, also does a good deal more. It could symbolize a sail, a rainbow, or even the basic order lying beneath nature's turbulent surface...
...Praised!" "Seems to me," said Marin. "the true artist must perforce go from time to time to the elemental big forms-sky, sea. mountain, plain-to sort of re-true himself up, to recharge the battery. But to express these, you have to love these, to be a part of these in sympathy." Marin's sympathy lasted to the end. From his home in Cape Split, Me., he dashed off one of his last notes to a friend just when nature was erupting all around him. "The Hurricane has just hit," he said. "The Seas are Glorious-Magnificent-Tremendous...