Word: mexicanitis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Carlos Chavez, Mexican composer and conductor, will deliver the first of the Spring Series of Charles Eliot Norton Lectures tomorrow at 8 p.m. in Sanders Theater. Performances of Chavez's works will follow the other two lectures in the series, "The Enjoyment of Music" on March 18 and "Composer and Public" on April...
...accepted Apra support for the presidential election, in return legalized the party when he won. For this, the oligarchs labeled him a traitor to his class. Actually, the Prado-Apra alliance may avert the class struggle between the oligarchs and the Indian masses that historians (mindful of the Mexican revolution) predict. Apra turned right and met Prado going left...
...assembled pictures could give the dimensions of Orozco's power, bitterness and weight, or of the clumsiness, coarseness and obviousness that make him so controversial. One perceptive critic recently returned from looking at the frescoes has joined Orozco's most fervent disciples. In his new book, Mexican Journal (Devin-Adair; $6), Selden Rodman writes that "if there was any doubt in my mind that Orozco was the great artist of our age, it has vanished." But Rodman quotes a number of the master's countrymen to prove that the winds of fame blow cold as well...
...understatement of the year to say that there has been much misunderstanding lately between the U.S. and Cuba. Our well publicized calls for intervention or punishment in various forms are antagonizing not only the Cubans but people of all Latin American countries. In a conversation with Gustavo Olguin, Mexican movie and television executive, I learned that the Mexican people are taking great interest in our conduct toward Cuba, and that there is now a growing wave of anti-Americanism in that country as a result of the pronouncements of the past few weeks. If the United States is to retain...
...Wildenstein Gallery of outstanding pictures drawn from its collection and its regular biennial roundup of contemporary U.S. paintings in Washington. Founder William Wilson Corcoran was a Washington banker so rich and so well connected financially that he could and did underwrite much of the cost of the Mexican War (1846-48). While new-rich American collectors of the 19th century were turning almost exclusively to European art, Corcoran himself chose to concentrate on the new American painters. Stabs and grabs at Europe by later benefactors have filled the Corcoran (on Washington's 17th Street, near the White House) with...