Word: mexicanization
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Herrera says he has an abiding personal interest in Aztec culture. His parents were part of a Mexican folkloric dance group for 25 years. He says he’s been fascinated by the bright colors and vibrance of the society since first seeing an Aztec exhibit at a museum in middle school. Herrera said he aimed to capture the Aztec aesthetic because of the “amazing imagery we no longer have in this world” and use the text and the setting in a “symbolic relationship...
Acting on a whim, Ingber responded to an open casting call publicized in the Boston Globe last fall. Soon, he had landed a ticket for an eight-day spring vacation to a beachfront Mexican villa along with fifteen other students. And in exchange for sunshine—an alluring option for any Massachusetts resident—Ingber agreed to have his life filmed 24 hours a day for the duration of the trip. The creators of MTV’s The Real World and Road Rule auditioned 10,000 students from around the country, whittling 500 hours of film footage...
...poem twice in the original Latin, but it was rereading the poem in Fitzgerald’s course on narrative poetry that “opened up its astonishing verbal beauty and human resonance” to Gioia, who attributes his love for the poem to his Italian and Mexican background...
...Former Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo is the Commencement speaker. Administration officials assured students that once Zedillo begins speaking, it will only seem as though he was at the podium for 71 years?...
Zedillo attended public school and the School of Economics at the National Polytechnic Institute in Mexico, before heading to Yale for his doctorate in economics. He then spent ten years in economic posts in the Mexican government, eventually serving as the Secretary of Economic Programming and the Budget from...