Word: mexicanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Last month a group of 58 social scientists and government officials, sponsored by the Harvard-M.I.T. Joint Center for Urban Studies, met to consider ways of improving the enumeration of non-white minority groups, such as Negroes, Puerto Ricans, and Mexican-Americans in the 1970 Census...
...preceding months Trotsky had been deserted and renounced by some of his closest associates, including his Mexican protector and benefactor, the painter Diego Rivera. And in May, 1940, Trotsky's home was subjected to an armed-raid, apparently at the instigation of Joseph Stalin. Around 4 a.m. a group of assailants broke into Trotsky's home and pumped about 200 machine gun bullets into Trotsky's bedroom. Although the attack left him miraculously unharmed Trotsky became increasingly concerned about his own safety and the safety of his papers...
...weeks following the assassination, Trotsky's widow, Natalya Sedova, collected the remainder of Trotsky's papers an dsuch memorabilia as his passport and Mexican identification card and had them shipped to Harvard. In 1953 another four or five items, including Trotsky's diary, were sold to Harvard by Sedova. But the growth of the Trotsky archives did not stop even there. Some of the papers which had never been sent on to Mexico were hidden from the Germans in France during the war by the family of John van Heijenoort, Trotsky's secretary for more than 10 years...
...Moscovites over 30 whose academic indoctrination was interrupted by World War II. They work as book illustrators or in publishing houses. Their paintings are frequently primitive, but often by design as well as accident, since many of them are familiar with the work of French Brutalist Jean Dubuffet and Mexican pre-Columbian art. Above all, they hark back to the powerful, stylized tradition of Russian icon painting that flourished between the 15th and 17th centuries...
Split Operations. Such advantages have fostered split manufacturing operations, under which Mexican workers do normally expensive handwork on items that can then be finished or assembled cheaply in the U.S. Example: Kayser-Roth's Catalina division cuts fabric for jackets and sportswear in Los Angeles, gets most of the stitching done in its Mexicali plant. Counting wages, duty and 400-mile round-trip trucking expenses, the Mexicali work adds up to about $1.20 per hour, compared with the $1.85 it would cost in Los Angeles...