Word: mexicans
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Diego Rivera is only an excerpt of his name. His Mexican parents had him baptized Diego Maria Concepcion Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodriguez de Valpuesta. Nobody ever called him anything but Diego Rivera, though many critics call him the greatest mural painter in the western hemisphere. If he is not the greatest, he is certainly the largest. His bulkiest rival. Joseph Urban, tips the scales at 230 Ib. Mural Painter Rivera displaced 250 Ib. the last time he was weighed; friends claim that he has expanded greatly since then...
...past two weeks thousands of bare-footed Mexican Indians have made pilgrimage to the Shrine of the Virgin of Guadaloupe. This may seem of slight interest to those whose heritage is Protestant and whose interests are commercial, but in the village just outside the City of Mexico a pageant is being played in the spirit and with the trappings of the Catholic Church of the Middle Ages. If one would understand the power and the immense spiritual fascination of this great tradition then turn and follow this medieval pilgrimage to the gaudy and artificial church of Guadaloupe...
...European Catholic would not recognize his Church in its Mexican form. With its customary realism it has here compromised with the native Indian faith. The Virgin is an Indian girl, with the natural dignity and beauty of her race. She appears to a poor peon and about this miracle the Church has woven all the mystery and hidden power characteristic of the Catholic tradition. In Catholicism the Indian finds the sonorous repetition of a potent formula which is what he asks of religion. His imagination is caught by the gilded altar-piece and he is emotionally confused and stirred...
Thse who want to understand the Church from which our times are largely sprung and who want to study one of the most powerful spiritual forces even to this day should try to see the Virgin of Guadaloupe as the Mexican Indian sees...
Since the days of Michael Wigglesworth (1631-1705) many a poet has aspired to write the American epic. Latest to throw his black Mexican hat into the ring is Phelps Putnam, whose hero, Bill Williams, is wandering through America, which he frankly characterizes as Hell. To Bill's amours and rowdy friends, a small number of readers were first introduced when Poet Putnam's Trine appeared in 1927. In The Five Seasons, Bill no longer is a mere collection of verse, but emerges as an American character to whom Epicist Putnam has dedicated his life...