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...been the archaeological coup of the age, but in some mysterious fashion, it suddenly seized the imagination of a group of European sculptors after World War II. All at once, Bond Street and Rue de Seine overflowed with tasteful mock fossils by Marino Marini, Germaine Richier and César. The style spread to America. The parallels were too many and too pat to miss: Pompeianism suited many a Fifties liberal, with his passive sense of impending catastrophe and his culturally induced impotence in the face of Joe McCarthy and Curtis LeMay. (Q. What did you do in the Great...
...brigade's brutal record prompted the government of President Julio César Méndez Montenegro to send Arana off to diplomatic exile in Nicaragua. But when the colonel returned to Guatemala last year to campaign for the presidency, he quickly gained the support of many of his countrymen. "If the voters agree with this insecurity, this chaos," he declared, "then I am not their candidate." Winding up his campaign two weeks ago in Zacapa, where he waged his successful antiguerrilla action, he told an audience of 8,000: "You know what it was like here before...
...Theater) begins. It does not simply point out evil but demands immediate action to eradicate it. An example of contemporary folk art, the Teatro has traveled the dusty roads of California's San Joachin Valley for three years, giving artistic moral support to the strike of César Chávez's Mexican-American grape pickers. The players encourage a revivalist atmosphere of hand clapping and shouting. "We like to make noise," says Director Valdez, who studied drama at San Jose State College, "because society does not allow us to make noise." Like Valdez, most...
...positions" or "I put out a position paper on that last week." Though he needed Negro support, he refused to make any special pleas, noting airily that "when the Negroes know my record, they'll come along." They never did. He yearned for the support of César Chávez, a Bobby Kennedy supporter and leader of California migrant workers who has become a virtual messiah to thousands of Mexican Americans. The Senator did in fact have long talks with Chávez. But he could not bring himself to ask for the labor leader...
...Webber Jr. and Naval Lieut. Commander Ernest Munro, who were murdered in Guatemala City last January. The killing of Ambassador Mein ended a promising four-month lull in Guatemala's violence. It set back hopes for new political stability, encouraged only last month when President Julio César Méndez Montenegro's moderate reform program won endorsement in countrywide municipal elections...