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...whom, by pious belief, the Virgin of Guadalupe appeared. A Roman Catholic group protested that this time Rivera had "exceeded the human limits of tolerance" by painting a leering Cantinflas as the symbol of "those who have turned their backs on Christ." Nothing of the sort, replied Rivera, with unctuous glee; his Cantinflas symbolized "the opposition of Mexico's poverty-stricken peasant masses to the country's 9,000 millionaires...
...populated with such characters as "J. Pluvius Bigdome," stuffed-shirt, penny-pinching president of Bilgewater Beverage Co.; Henry Tremble-chin, Bigdome's browbeaten employee; Phootkiss, the office climber; Lushwell, a well-meaning but unpopular drunk who drags reluctant friends off to the El Clippo nightclub; and Gliblip, the unctuous sales manager. Typical Hatlo situation: browbeaten Mr. Tremblechin, nervously on his way to his first dinner at Bigdome's house, dropping his false teeth and smashing them on the pavement...
What Was It All About? Those familiar with Winchell's vindictive memory and oblique methods of revenge had no trouble guessing that his real target was not Chandler's but its unctuous disk jockey, Barry Gray, 36, whose name Winchell never mentions in the attacks. Gray, who mixes only an infrequent record with his pretentious, long-winded, post-midnight "discussion program," broadcast by Manhattan's WMCA, committed an unpardonable sin last year. He turned his microphone over to New York Daily News Columnist Ed Sullivan for an hourlong, scathing attack on Winchell (TIME, Jan. 7). Those...
Rivera's latest work, with its unctuous Uncle Joe, brought back memories of the famous mural he painted for Manhattan's Rockefeller Center in 1933. Diego entered the Communist martyrology when the Rockefeller management paid him for the mural but destroyed it because it glorified Lenin and Communism. Last week Rivera was making martyr sounds again: the Mexican government had commissioned his latest mural (on movable panels) as part of a big exhibit of Mexican art to be shown in Paris this May. After a good, hard look at The Nightmare of War and the Dream of Peace...
Inside their walled institution, both students and faculty live a Spartan existence. Such hardship, college authorities feel, is in keeping with their belief, that if a person is bigger and better than his fellow man, there is no need for him to use unctuous favor-seeking to gain his ends. The mind with power and purpose is the Closed mind, they feel...