Word: riveras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Beautiful friendships which had withstood Diego Rivera, the Dartmouth Library, and Radio Center, were broken as the debaters took sides on a question which may--before all of its ramifications have been explored--assume international importance...
...Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Richelieu, Andrew Jackson, Queen Elizabeth, Grover Cleveland. Theodore Roosevelt, Marie Antoinette; autobiographies of Clarence Darrow, Lincoln Steffens, Alice B. Toklas; Beveridge and the Progressive Era, The War of Independence, The Grain Race, Stars Fell on Alabama, Of Thee I Sing, poems of Archibald MacLeish, Diego Rivera's Portrait of America, The New Dealers, Farewell to Reform, Vols. 3, 4 & 5 of Mark Sullivan's Our Times, Yachts Under Sail, Tobacco Road, Obscure Destinies, Union Square, One More Spring, Rabble in Arms, Road to Nowhere, Christmas Tree in the Woods...
...this year are the following courses given by Harvard men: "Money and Commercial Crises", by Felix I. Shaffer '25; "Recent Trends in American Government", by Payson S. Wild Jr., Instructor in Government; "Milton", by Philip W. Souers, instructor in English; Modern Spanish Novels and Plays", by Guillermo Rivera, assistant professor of Spanish; and "Cathedrals and Abbeys of Mediaeval Europe", by Kenneth J. Conant '15, associate professor of Architecture. Two other courses to be presented will be "Recent Developments in Drama", by Professor Joseph R. Taylor, of Boston University; "The History of England and the British Empire, 1689 to the Present...
Last February Jose Clemente Orozco, one-armed peer of Diego Rivera, signed and dated the last of his 15 great frescoes on the walls of Dartmouth's new Baker Library (TIME, Feb. 26). Then Dartmouth settled down to contemplate in awe or anger the largest fresco unit in the U.S. Keynote of Orozco's Epic of American Civilization was Mexican mythology and the second coming of Quetzalcoatl, "the white Messiah of peace and understanding." To depict academic tradition in the U. S., without Quetzalcoatl, Orozco did Gods of the Modern World?robed skeletons watching an unclothed skeleton give birth...
...Diego Rivera puffed up a mountain at Taxco, Mexico, slipped on the steep path, fractured his right hand. As soon as he can hold a paint brush again, Artist Rivera announced, he will reproduce on the walls of Mexico City's $30,000,000 Palace of Fine Arts the murals which John Davison Rockefeller Jr. had torn from Rockefeller Center (TIME...