Word: mexicanization
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...member orchestra will give 26 formal concerts in nine Mexican cities during its eight-week tour, and will live with Mexican families in each cities, and give lecture-demonstrations in schools. Mexican soloists, guest conductors, and orchestras will participate in many of the concerts...
...troll-eyed German high school teacher, Spengler looked at history not as a linear series of events but as the organic flowering and dying of eight major cultures: ancient Egyptian, ancient Semitic, Peruvian, Chinese, Mexican, Middle Eastern, Greco-Roman and Western. All had flourished for the same amount of time (about 1,000 years). All showed the same development. By comparing the dead to the living, the historian could tick off the inevitable signs of decay and predict how death would come again...
Under attack, Toynbee merely revised some of his broader conclusions. Spengler was all but shot down in flames. The experts demonstrated that he knew almost nothing about Chinese culture, nothing at all about Mexican. His Time Chart, marking off the exact number of years spent by each culture in each Spenglerian phase of its doomed history, was riddled with errors of fact. His parallels between cultures were often forced. All this was true. If the West was declining, it was not doing so according to any rules or laws the book had demonstrated...
Michael C. Senturia '53, instructor in Music and conductor of the HRO, will give several lecture-demonstrations with members of the orchestra in Mexican primary and secondary schools...
Luis Herrera de la Fuente, conductor of the Mexican National Symphony Orchestra, has agreed to lead the HRO in a piece of Mexican music in the July 9 concert at the Palace of Fine Arts in Mexico City...