Word: mexicanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Upon the conquest, the art of Mexico stumbled for a while, then swallowed up the onslaught of Spanish artistry and went on to spawn a new nationalistic and individual tradition. To show the whole sweeping story, the Mexican government prepared an encyclopedic exhibit of more than 2,000 works of art from pre-Columbian times to the present (see next two pages). After five years in Europe, where 9,000,000 people saw it, the show has come to the U.S., and now is on view at the Los Angeles County Museum...
Egan. Texas shrimpers have to deal with Mexican gunboats that wait to pounce on them over western Gulf of Mexico shrimp beds; and San Diego tuna men are still bitter about last spring's capture of two of their boats by Ecuador, which assessed $26,000 in fines...
...institute's founder-director, is William Cameron Townsend, 67, who has lived with languages and Indians nearly all his life. A persuasive man of infinite patience, Townsend learned his first Indian dialect in 1917 while selling Bibles in Guatemala. In 1935, at the invitation of the Mexican government, he launched the institute's first research and teaching mission. As more governments sought help, Townsend pioneered his own techniques of training and teaching, and dispatched teams to country after country...
...school and university concerts were more unconventionally rewarding. After the quintet's performance at a boys' high school, a tall wiry cheerleader bounded on stage to lead a lusty, "Rah-rah-rah Harvard." Then the boys sang the Mexican National Anthem...
Playing together one morning in a park, they were heard by a representative of the Mexican-American Cultural Institute which arranges cultural exchanges. She came up and asked them to tour Mexico themselves next summer...