Word: rivera
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...Mexico, inordinately praised its crude-colored landscapes, its dark, slow-moving Indians, its Aztec remains. They were so impressed with Mexico's cultural heritage that they helped Mexicans make the most of it. In painting, no one has done more to work out a native style than Diego Rivera. In music, no one has done so much as his good friend Carlos Chavez, the swart young mestizo who can make a full orchestra suggest swishing gourds and shrill clay pipes. Excitement ran high in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall last week when Composer Chavez faced the New York Philharmonic...
...barely out of his teens. A seventh child, he was born near Mexico City in 1899, first studied piano with his brother Manuel, later with teachers like Asuncion Parra and Pedro Ogazón. At 22, Chavez met José Vasconcelos, the radical Secretary of Education who hired Rivera to paint the famous murals in his Secretariat. Vasconcelos gave Chavez the commission for his first ballet, The New Fire...
...Great Exile a mischief El Hidalgo stopped some miles outside the capital and Mr. & Mrs. Trotsky, with six Mexican detectives permanently assigned to them, alighted to finish their journey by motor car.* This whisked them to the spacious suburban residence of fat and smoldering Mexican Muralist Diego Rivera, an ardent Trotskyist, friend of President Cardenas, and casher-in on the John D. Rockefellers (Father & Son) who in art "know what they like...
...Tremendous was the hullabaloo raised meanwhile by the Mexican Communist Party which is avowedly Stalinist. Its General Secretary,† blatant Comrade Hernan Laborde, massed his Reds in Mexico City's St. Domingo Square and roared: "Down with Trotsky who is living in the home of the Capitalist Painter Rivera! . . . We demand the expulsion of Trotsky from Mexico. . . . Trotsky, the rotten bourgeois-stalking horse, has already broken his promise to refrain from politics in Mexico and has insulted the Soviet Government...
...land of proletarian reform. As England's great, liberal Manchester Guardian observed in a gentlemanly salute to Trotsky last week, "Let us hope he will find a sure refuge in Mexico-a revolutionary country where a great revolutionary may be appreciated and understood." At latest reports, Host Diego Rivera had had to return to a hospital with a kidney ailment; Mrs. Trotsky had gone to bed with what seemed to be a recurrence of her malaria; Guest Trotsky, respectfully watched and waited on by dark-eyed young Hostess Rivera, had resumed dictation to his secretaries of his monumental Biography...