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Secretary-General Landa ordered the murals boarded up, explained plaintively: "The actors wanted the mural to depict scenes related to their art." Siqueiros promptly let out a cry of rage, called it wanton censorship, threatened to take the issue to the actors themselves, by "force if necessary; jail does not frighten me." With the fire of battle glinting once again in his green eyes, Siqueiros scoffed: "What kind of tragedy did you expect me to portray in a mural?°A Greek tragedy? Nonsense. For me, tragedy in present-day Mexico is the struggle of labor to become independent...
...advisers, his escape from the lions' den, his final vision of the time when the "holy one comes/The most holy of the holy," and an angel announces "Christ is born." One of the play's engaging qualities is its childlike mixture of varying emotions: a scene of wanton rejoicing to the fluttering sound of recorders gives way to a mood of reverence, signified by the sweet-sounding psaltery, and again to the quiet, harp-punctuated anguish of Daniel's farewell to Darius ("Is it thus, O King, that you wish me to perish...
...struggle, had begun its 1958 school year quietly-too quietly for someone who saw that nine Negro children were peaceably attending classes with whites. This week, at three-minute intervals in the foggy early morning, three dynamite explosions gutted Clinton High School. Rather than have school for all, some wanton destroyer preferred school for none...
...nuclear war? No, declared Toronto's Canon H. R. Hunt, general secretary of the Anglican Church of Canada. The Archbishop had simply noted that God's providence leaves man's fate up to man. Said Canon Hunt: "Perversity in human conduct and wanton disobedience of divine law result inevitably in the destruction and death of sinful man. Whatsoever man sows, that shall he reap...
...executions of ex-Premier Imre Nagy, General Pal Maleter and two other lesser leaders of the Hungarian revolt were in wanton defiance of public pledges (see below) given by the puppet Communist government maintained by Russian tanks in Budapest. The official announcement of the executions by the Hungarian government was made in a manner calculated to achieve maximum international publicity. It conceded that neither Nagy nor Maleter had confessed guilt, deliberately failed to give the date of their execution (which probably occurred only a few hours before issuance of the communique). Asked when the trial had taken place, Chief Prosecutor...