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...committees down through the years have usually been successful in appointing important artists and scholars, including T.S. Eliot '10, Edwin Muir, e.e. cummings '10, and Octavio Paz literature; Edwin Panovsky and Laurence Binyon in fine arts; R. Buckminster Fuller in architecture; and Aaron Copland and Igor Stravinsky in music. But the committee has also been turned down. It tried to get W.H. Auden one year but he couldn't come. It seems that Auden wanted to come, but he was headed in the opposite direction, toward England. Edmund Wilson also turned down the Norton Chair, apparently because he didn...
...review, Octavio Paz described Los Olvidados as "implacable as the silent march of lava." I can't imagine a more apt metaphor to convey its impact. Famous scenes: the gang of young boys tormenting a blind man; Pedro's dream (more powerful and more complex than any described by Freud); the "second chance" offered by the liberal reformatory...
...conflict of cultures demands a political choice on the part of artists, who help mold cultural change. The imitators of foreign art ally themselves with foreign exploitation, both cultural and economic. Octavio Paz wrote that Mexican imitators of the European novel presented "a rather sketchy and superficial image" of the Mexican landscape in contrast to the "somber, intoxicating grandeur" suggested in the description of Mexico by European novelists D.H. Lawrence and Malcolm Lowry...
0PPOSING the sterile Mexican novelists described by Octavio Paz is Paz himself. Cesar Vallejo and Pablo Neruda--with Paz, the finest and most influential of the Latin American poet-politicians--are dead now, but younger writers are following their example...
Frances Tarlton ("Sissy") Farenthold, LL.D., feminist and politician. Her willingness to take the fight to the people has renewed their faith in our system. Octavio Paz, L.H.D., Mexican poet...