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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...
...Paz and Northrop Frye, wreaths racked in rows...
...appointed day in April, 1952, truckload after truckload of gun-toting peasants, many of whom had never traveled more than ten miles from their native communities, were driven to La Paz, where they marched through the streets chanting the slogans of the MNR and, within three days, had assured the success of the Revolution...
...center and its impassable jungles in the east have made efficient communication and transportation almost impossible until very recently. But, with economic progress and the importation of technology from abroad, the once-isolated countryside is becoming increasingly exposed to the Western life that flourishes in urban centers like La Paz and Cochabamba...
...girl was from the campo, the doctor told me as he carefully unrolled the bandage. Her village was located about ten miles out on the road that leads to La Paz. The girl, barely able to speak between her clenched teeth, told him that she had waited two weeks after the fracture before coming to seek medical care in Cochabamba. The doctor, his hands working rapidly, removed the moist bandage and, with a professional sweep of the arm, dropped it into a basket...