Word: salvadore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When he was a young fellow, Italy's Giorgio de Chirico (pronounced keerico) was a red-hot surrealist and an inspiration to other radicals of the easel like Salvador Dali. Most of his favorite themes-the melancholy shadows of late afternoon, the animated manikins, the colonnades and lonely figures in otherwise deserted squares-have since become standard surrealist props...
...valo, once the Legion's staunch supporter, had also accepted its demise. He was still half-heartedly chasing his old dream of a democratic Central American confederation, but he had shifted to diplomatic means. The new approach involved cooing noises aimed toward Honduras and El Salvador. Inspired newspaper stories spoke hopefully of future meetings between Arevalo and Honduras' new President Juan Manuel Gálvez, between Arévalo and the Salvadorean junta's Major Oscar Osorio. Guatemalan student delegations were hustled off to both countries to spread good will. Noting slight leftward turns by both governments...
HERMAN J. V. GRIMMER JR. San Salvador, El Salvador...
...Salvador Dali, appearing on a television show with Cartoonist Al Capp, insisted on drawing a special Dali window in every one of Capp's shmoos-"so that you can see the horizons beyond." Later, Salvador recalled a previous artistic collaboration. "I used to draw with Picasso," he boasted. "First I'd draw a line, then he'd draw a line...
Accepting the inevitable, the U.S. last week recognized the military governments of Venezuela and El Salvador. Before doing so, the State Department had gone about as far as it could to discourage power-hungry army men elsewhere in Latin America. At the order of President Truman (TIME, Jan. 10), it had put off the Venezuelan recognition for two months. But when it asked other Latin American governments for advice, their almost unanimous answer was, in effect: "Face the unpleasant facts...