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...owed as much to his spiritual pilgrimage to Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel and El Greco's Toledo as he did to the allegiance of his Indian blood. The sketch (17½ in. by 22 in.) for one of the figures in Orozco's mural in the rotunda of the University at Guadalajara is more than the record of a painter's solution to a difficult problem in perspective; it is in itself a master drawing in the great tradition of Western...
...signing, the President drove to the Capitol, appeared in the Rotunda before an audience of 800 Congressmen, Cabinet officers, civil rights leaders and others. To his right was a statue of Abraham Lincoln, to his left a bust of the Emancipator. On national television and radio, the President recalled that the first Negro slaves in the U.S. were landed at Jamestown in 1619. "They came in darkness and chains," he said. "Today we strike away the last major shackle of those fierce and ancient bonds...
...that same spirit that the President of the U.S. addressed himself to the American Negro in his Rotunda speech: "Let me now say to every Negro in this country: you must register, you must vote. And you must learn, so your choice advances your interest and the interest of our beloved nation. Your future, and your children's future, depend upon...
...Huge, castellated, rotunda-capped, the Del Coronado Hotel dominates the Coronado peninsula, just across the Bay from San Diego. While it now caters to conventions, it still holds the loyalty of longtime visitors, including almost anybody who is anybody in Hollywood...
Courted ardently for his collection, Justin Thannhauser recently decided to bequeath the majority of his works to Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum. His reasoning: "My collection complements the museum's." Placed on exhibition last week in newly opened galleries off the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed spiral rotunda, Thannhauser's paintings fit so well into the museum's formerly limited collection that in one stroke they make the Guggenheim a historical showcase of modern...