Word: mexicanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sure that your article will inspire the mom-and-apple-pie set to do everything in their power to keep our peach-fuzz Army unblemished by Mexican border towns...
...that Mexican town "makes Gomorrah look like Racine, Wis." We Racine, Wis., boys have a passion for anonymity...
...Mexican President Adolfo López Mateos never says a word against Fidel Castro, and insists that in politics he is a leftist "within the constitution." Yet López Mateos has not hesitated to come down hard on troublesome leftists at home. Last week his regime came down hard on Mexico's No. 1 leftist (and No. 1 artist), David Alfaro Siqueiros. 65. The Communist painter, who has already been behind bars for 20 months, was sentenced to eight years in the federal penitentiary for "social dissolution"-i.e., troublemaking during student demonstrations in August...
...both inside Mexico and from around the world protested; the López Mateos regime finally brought Siqueiros to trial in January. In a tiny, dingy courtroom the artist stole the show with a three-hour speech ranging from his youthful years in politics to the present panorama of Mexican art, to the endless betrayal of the 1910 Mexican revolution by every regime down to and including the present. It was a stirring offense, but not much of a defense, especially considering several personal insults Siqueiros aimed at the presiding judge himself...
...Night of the Iguana, by Tennessee Williams. In his wisest play, the author gathers four of life's castaways on a Mexican veranda and probes their violated hearts...