Word: mexicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Revueltas: Sensemayá (London Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra conducted by Argeo Quadri; Westminster). Composer Revueltas was a tragically short-lived Mexican (1899-1940) who wrote a few large and richly tinted works. This one is a fascinating, grunting, growling number that sounds like a bolero by Tarzan in bobbing ⅞ time. It is presented in Westminster's hi-fi "Laboratory Series," wrapped in a fancy plastic zipper bag, and accompanied by a second-by-second description that is good for testing ears and playback equipment. The disk includes Soviet Modernist Mossolov's once notorious Iron Foundry...
...slopes of Mount Hood, zoom east for a water spectacle at Jones Beach, take in a couple of scenes from Julius Caesar at the Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Ont., listen to a jam session on New Orleans' Bourbon Street and switch to Tijuana to watch the Mexican comic pantomimist, Cantinflas, fight a bull with nothing sharper than...
Sequitur. In Mexico City, the Mexican government telegraph company, replying to numerous requests to inaugurate night service, announced: "This is impossible because our offices are closed at night...
...plaque at its Washington headquarters. Recognizing that many casualties among chaplains in the Civil and Revolutionary Wars went unrecorded, the plaque bears a tribute to "those known only to God." Of those known to man, ten died in the Revolution, one each in the War of 1812 and the Mexican War, 67 in the Civil War, 24 in World War I, 188 in World War II, and 14 in the Korean...
Today, church schools, which not long ago had to conduct their work under cover, are in open operation (though they still carry the names of Mexican patriots instead of saints' names). There are 34 seminaries training some 2,000 young priests. In Mexico City alone, about 20 new churches have been completed in the past year; 23 more are under construction. (The estimated 500,000 Mexican Protestants are also doing better than they used to; they never met as much government opposition as the Catholics, but their proselytizing ran into sharp hostility, particularly in rural areas.) Mexico...