Word: moc
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...BARBAROUS COAST, by Ross Moc-donald (247 pp.; Knopf; $2.95), gives motivation and complexity to the stock characters of the hard-guy private-eye school. Detective Lew Archer, moving through the criminal fringe of the Southern California movie world, is just the man to delight fans of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler...
Peril from Tigers. During the first weeks of his life with the Reds, they made Leriche do chores such as carrying supplies for combat troops, but he had time (and was permitted) to watch the Viet Minh preparations for an assault on Moc-chau. The commanders built crude sand tables, then made their men practice the attack again and again. "Each soldier rehearsed his job 50 times, maybe 100 times. C'est formidable. When they attack they move like machines...
...attacked his job with soldierly ferocity, quick-drying pyroxylin paint and a spray gun. The mural has more force than feeling, but it is clearly in line with Siqueiros' oft-repeated theory that the right, true end of art is propaganda. His subject this time is Cuauhtémoc-the Aztec hero who tried to defend Mexico City against Cortés after the death of Montezuma. One panel shows Cuauhtémoc being tortured by the Spaniards, along with a bleeding woman and a child with its hands chopped off. Morbid? Goodness, no, said Siqueiros, "unless paintings...
...mural's other panel, Cuauhtémoc appears as a conqueror (which he was not), dressed in the armor of the men who beat him and wearing an Aztec crown. "He's a fighting symbol of our national independence," Siqueiros said, "of independence not yet entirely won." Added Siqueiros, who keeps up to date on party literature even when busy with a spray gun: "I see in Cuauhtémoc [a prototype of] Mao Tse-tung of China, Luis Carlos Prestes of Brazil, the leaders of the Viet Minh and the fighters for the nationalization of Iran...