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...proud corps has carried the Marines through every major war in the nation's history and through 200 or more lesser battles in the past 177 years-a record of almost continuous action that has led them literally from the shores of Tripoli to the Halls of Montezuma and on to the ridges of Korea. That record is sustained by the soul-shaking rigors of Marine training that turns a shave-headed boot into a dedicated fighting man whose faith is in his rifle and whose religion is his corps. And it is nourished by the legendary heroes...
...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...