Word: mexicanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PEDRO MARTÍNEZ, by Oscar Lewis. With his tape recorder spinning, the author of The Children of Sanchez gets down the biography of another Mexican: a peasant farmer who engaged in one ill-fated political reform after another...
View It Yourself. Not all the fair's good shows, however, are on film or indoors. Several times a day, five Mexican Indians climb a giddy, 114-ft. pole outside the Mexican pavilion. One begins to dance on top of the pole; his four companions lean over backward and fall toward the ground. They are tied to long ropes which are wrapped tightly around the summit of the pole. Hanging upside down, all four men begin to spin in accelerating, expanding, awesomely descending circles as the ropes unwind, righting themselves just in time to drop lightly to the pavement...
Venal Men. Thus Carlos Fuentes, an able and eloquent novelist, though not a subtle one, passionately expounds the dominant Marxist line: the failure of the Mexican Revolution to produce a socialist Utopia must be laid to venal men who betrayed it to capitalist thieves and their attendant priests and police...
...Brooks and Llewellyn Pitts. Basically it is a chunky, $5,000,000 rectangular marble box rising six stories above some elegant but unrelated granite vaultwork. Since much of Mexico City sits on what was a lake, the building must be broad-footed to avoid sinking into muddy subsoil. A Mexican engineer, Leonardo Zeevaert, designed a displacement foundation that is in effect a watertight ship, and the weight of the building that it supports exactly equals the weight of the soil removed in excavation. Mexicans call it "the floating embassy...
Goldfarb, on leave of absence this term, was given the prize for his article, about Mexican laborers in California, "Beginning American," which appeared last December in the Advocate...