Word: mexicanitis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mexican Ivanhoe. When the university opened its doors in 1948. it had 107 freshmen and a faculty of 13. Its plant consisted of a Normanesque" castle" (which Architect Eero Saarinen once described as "Mexican Ivanhoe") and a few other buildings that had belonged to the defunct Middlesex University Medical School. At first the founders hoped that Albert Einstein would consent to take over the presidency. But when Einstein declined, they hit upon the happy choice of Historian Abram Sachar, chairman of the National Hillel Commission...
...TJ.S. CATTLE SALE is being negotiated with Mexican buyers to give cash relief to drought-hit U.S. ranchers. Mexico got $5,000,000 loan from U.S. Export-Import Bank to buy about 40,000 beef and dairy cattle. Two buying teams from south of border are touring Texas...
...most conspicuous example of this false and American idealism is in Giant's handling of the segregation issue, through the somewhat less flagrant problem of Texan prejudice against Mexican-Americans. The movie does depict the trend in Mexican-Texan relations correctly--only the old settlers do not understand the "messican;" the new generation accepts and even encourages him. But as usual, Hollywood has oversimplified, exaggerating the problem in order to come up with a strikingly optimistic conclusion. No Mexican-American would ever be ejected from any restaurant as in the movie. On the other hand, no son of a Benedict...
...typical of American thinking that the solution to an intricate social problem would be sought in a hamburger-joint brawl, or in a Civil War. Hollywood's implied linking of Mexican social status with Negro social status is specious. But the oversimplification is revealing, because it illustrates the crudity which characterizes the "American approach" to things...
...individualists are kept poor for a good reason--they drink and they like to work off steam by hitting people. But Hollywood is not content with this--it insists on blaming the individualist for racial prejudice. Jett Rink, in his supreme poor form, calls Mrs. Bick Benedict III (a Mexican-American) a "squaw." Obviously Bick Benedict II (the standing order) would never do this, whether because of his sense of security or his fear of society. But Hollywood's idea that the individualist Jett Rink would be more racially prejudiced simply because he is not "other-directed" is amazing...