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...turning out to be a good year for the Mexican poet and critic Octavio Paz. Last spring, to celebrate his 76th birthday, Mexico City's Cultural Center of Contemporary Art staged an exhibition ranging from pre-Columbian artifacts to modern paintings and called the show "Octavio Paz: The Privileges of Sight." Last week the Swedish Academy selected him for a privilege he had reason to believe was out of sight...
...Nobel physics and chemistry prizes are to be announced today. Last week, Mexican poet and essayist Octavio Paz won the prize for literature. Two American doctors, Joseph E. Murray, a professor of surgery emeritus at Harvard Medical School, and E. Donnall Thomas, won the prize in medicine for pioneering organ and bone marrow transplants...
...century, Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Kahlo and Rufino Tamayo. (Artists born after 1910 are not included.) Wisely, the Met sells the catalog at the end of the show, not the beginning. Packed with illustrations, scholarly essays and an introduction by the great Mexican writer Octavio Paz, it weighs just under 7 1/2 lbs., and should have wheels...
...find it hard to imagine such a society, not because it was so cruel -- in that regard, pre-Columbian Mexico was no worse than 20th century Europe with its wars and concentration camps -- but because its cruelty, as Paz points out in his catalog essay, was indissolubly part of its "senseless and sublime" theological and moral system. "The Mesoamerican vision of the world and of man is shocking. It is a tragic vision that both stimulates and numbs me. It does not seduce me, but it is impossible not to admire it." So might some Russian of the 3rd millennium...
...have braved the trailing route know it can be rough. Last February, Ray Victurine, 35, left a job with an international agency in La Paz, Bolivia, to follow his wife to Seattle, where she had landed a job with a family and health organization. Four wageless months passed before Victurine found consulting work and settled on entering a Ph.D. program. "You begin to question your self-esteem," he admits...