Word: prado
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hour siesta drew to its close, life stirred along Havana's Prado. Shoeshine boys and maracas salesmen lolled under the laurel trees. English-speaking pimps eyed the few tourists who were waiting for the smart leather and perfume shops to open...
Ignored by the idlers, two sedans turned into the Prado and parked close to the Paseo de Marti branch of the Royal Bank of Canada. The porter was just opening the thick mahogany doors of the one-story limestone building...
Zealous students had tried to get rid of the offending words, but Rivera had simply painted them back in. Two days later some other zealot sneaked to the Del Prado Hotel, scraped out the words once more, and added three long scratches to Rivera's portrait of himself as a boy. At that, the government stepped in, boarded up the dining room with three thicknesses of heavy lumber, and assigned it a 24-hour police guard...
Diego Rivera was in hot water again last week. His mural in Mexico City's Del Prado Hotel (TIME, Oct. 6) had suddenly become a national scandal. Someone had informed the Archbishop that the mural contained a portrait of Don Ignacio Ramirez (an anticlerical follower of Juarez) holding a placard with the words Dios no existe ("God does not exist"-see cut). Sadly, the Archbishop canceled a date to bless the just-completed hotel and went off to bless some jai alai courts instead...
That did it. Rivera was condemned by practically everyone in town-except the Communists, who prepared to forgive him his Trotskyite sins and welcome him back with open arms. Roman Catholic committees demanded that the Del Prado mural be changed, or got rid of, as Rivera's Reforma Hotel and Rockefeller Center murals had been...