Word: montezuma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year of record-breaking foreign student enrollment in U.S. colleges and universities. Harvard is proportionally third with 730 foreign students (7.1 percent). The University trails only Montezuma Seminary (100 percent) and M.I.T. (10 percent...
...scars and broken bones that resulted crippled him for life, they also became a good investment. Some of his "wounds," he later told Bill Cody, had been suffered when he swam the Blackwater River under fire in the Civil War, others dated from his storming of the Halls of Montezuma and from the Seminole...
...accompany the first two essays, "The Spirit of the Middle Ages" and "Medieval Life"; the third is illustrated by early Renaissance masterpieces of Giotto and Botticelli. Later comes "The Age of Exploration" with its hopeful, half-empty maps, Vasco da Gama in cap & gown, and a grinning mask which Montezuma presented to Cortes. The section on "The Protestant Reformation" includes a caricature doodled by a seminarian of his instructor, one John Calvin. The world's first modern observatory helps illustrate "The Dawn of Modern Science." Watteau's dimpled courtesans bring "The Age of Enlightenment" to life. A sketch...
...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 of Christ on the Cross...
...Halls of Montezuma. In Detroit, Edward J. Lappan won a divorce from his wife Edith, testified that since she got out of the service she 1) "couldn't forget she had been a marine," 2) "always wanted to fight...