Word: mexicans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which to view "rushes" he used an immense amount of film-160.000 ft. The picture, not yet publicly released, is called Viva Mexico. It relates three incidents, each with different characters. Wrote Critic Edmund Wilson, after seeing parts of Viva Mexico: "The first is a tragedy of the Mexican peons under the Diaz regime; the second a romance of the master class during the same period and the third a story of one of the camp followers in the army of the revolution. ... As you watch . . . you are ready to believe that Eisenstein has indeed created the supreme masterpiece...
...necessary to register the whole image on canvas. He is impersonal. He catches with the eye, of the camera, and he fortifies the object with symbolism; but his symbolism is the soul emanation of the object, not the essence which the mind imposes upon it. When Rivers, the famous Mexican mural painter, draws a tractor, he does not delve into his folio for a model or into the store of his technical information for the knowledge, but relies upon his mental image, with the result that his machines though often crude and grotesque, are always recognizable and familiar...
...Rochester, the winners in other sectional contests. Yale gleemen, who flew expensively from New Haven, sang second best, Penn State third. Not for sweet singing alone is Pomona famed. Knowing tourists come from all over California to see its huge ogival fresco of Prometheus by the one armed Mexican Muralist Jaan Clemente Orozco...
...Zachary Taylor Miller (TIME, April 4); in Noble County, Okla. A towering Negro, Picket "threw steers with his teeth." To advertise the 101 Ranch show in Mexico City. Col. Joseph C. Miller (brother of Col Zack) once bet that Picket could down a bull as quickly as a toreador. Mexicans whooped with derision, brought a great, black bull down from the mountains, posted $5,000 and the gate receipts. So sure were the Mexicans that Picket would be gored to death that they provided a coffin and burial squad. Entering the arena on a cayuse, Picket jumped on the back...
...presidents put up the first foundry west of the Alleghenies. Another built the first locomotive in that territory. A third made the first chilled rolls in the territory. Others cast great cannon, then biggest in the world, for Perry's fleet in the War of 1812, for the Mexican War, for the Union Army in the Civil War.' When the steel industry began, Mackintosh-Hemphill invented much of the machinery used, shipped it from Pittsburgh to India. Japan, Australia, Russia. Belgium and other nations. Epoch in the company's venerable history was when Andrew Carnegie came to it and President...