Word: sociedad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last Bulwark. Conservative Argentine society was shaken right down to its stirrups when Peron moved in on the Socie-dad Rural, organization and stronghold of the landed aristocracy. Peron remembered the boos he got (in absentia) last year at the Sociedad's famed cattle show. At this year's, he was determined to get the cheers. A first, necessary step was a new and pro-Peron executive committee. Last week, the old executive committee obligingly resigned...
...Sociedad de Arte Moderno had lovingly collected 330 examples of native Mexican sculpture, mounted them in a dazzling exhibit. The show was loosely called Mascaras Mexicanas (Mexican Masks) - but along with the religious, ceremonial and dance masks was a colorful assortment of sculptured heads originally designed as decorations for jewelry, pot tery, architecture...
Bringing its exhibit up to the 20th Century, the Sociedad also showed a modern Indian dance mask fashioned of straw, bits of mirror ?nd shiny human teeth (see cut). But in the main, there was not much effort to place works in their exact historical niches. Even the archeologists avoid references to epochs: they merely speak of four vague "cultural horizons...
...Mexico City Picasso show was gathered by the town's newest art association, Sociedad de Arte Moderno (Modern Art Society). In the Society's rented gallery on the Paseo de la Reforma, all kinds of Picassos were hung-from the posterish Harlequin to the Seated Woman (see cut), an example of Picasso's attempt to capture a figure from several angles simultaneously. Dropped at the last minute was a plan to show a large reproduction of Picasso's famed Guernica mural, a graphically violent protest against Franco's atrocities during the Spanish Civil...
...Sociedad Ecuatoriana de Transportes Aéreos (Sedta) flies 900 route miles in Colombia's next-door neighbor, Ecuador. Heavily subsidized by the local Government and Germany, Sedta is controlled by Deutsche Lufthansa through equipment credits, other loans. It is no moneymaker. But it makes up in good will what it lacks in revenue. Nearly 50% of its passengers (many of whom are Government officials) reportedly travel free, barely 10% pay the full fare...