Word: mexicanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...very word "rival" was used in Roman law as a term for those who shared the water of a rivus, or irrigation channel. The U.S. Supreme Court last year had to settle a longstanding feud between Arizona and California over use of the waters of the Colorado River. Continuing Mexican complaints have finally persuaded the U.S. to agree to dig a canal to divert salt-polluted waters from Arizona irrigation runoff before they can re-enter the Colorado and flow past Mexican cropland. But diplomacy has not yet managed to move the Jordanians and Israelis to settle their quarrel over...
...Epitaph Written. In his day, Orozco was acclaimed for what were considered his uniquely Mexican qualities. He drew his subject matter from Aztec, Mayan and Toltec mythology, the history of the Spanish conquest and the 1910 Revolution. His colors are violent and rough, like those of the native Indian pottery and fabric designs. His figures are powerful, primordial and violent; their every thrust calls out for social justice...
...Reward is a U.S. western from a book written by an Englishman and made by a French director with a Swedish leading man, a French-American heroine, and a number of Mexican actors who deliver at least half the dialogue in Spanish. These exotic ingredients were pressure-cooked on location in the 125° midsummer heat of California's Death Valley, and the result is indigestible...
...head for a kidnap-killing he may or may not have committed. The police captain (Gilbert Roland), an embittered tough guy suffering from malaria as well as some of the corniest lines ever delivered in Death Valley, sets out in a truck with Von Sydow and three Mexican assistants to hunt down the fugitives (Efrem Zimbalist Jr. and Yvette Mimieux) and claim the reward...
...national interest came first, as Pentagon Planner Seymour Deitchman points out, "in the use of the atom bomb, the Mexican war, the war with Spain over Cuba, the destruction of American Indian tribal society, failure to support the Hungarian rebellion. We were able to rationalize our moral problems, which were real and recognized, because the political and economic problems were greater and more urgent." Similarly, Kashmir is of national interest to Indians, who believe that its loss would put in jeopardy hundreds of other princely states and consequently imperil India's tenuous union itself. It is also of national...