Word: yucatan
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...mice, not only with words but with his own drawings, which are artistic works of science. His interest in ecology-the study of the relation, always complex, between each animal and its environment-makes his book not merely a description of loathly and lovely beastlings from Jamaica and Yucatan but a picture of a darker and grander organism of which they are parts...
...revolution"-a confused and confusing mixture of banditry, adobe-hut Marxism, nationalism and agrarian reform which has been seething for 30 years-rose three great revolutionary artists. Their lurid propaganda paintings (reaching Mexico's illiterate peons far more effectively than printed words) covered walls from Nuevo Leon to Yucatan and revived the art of fresco painting on a scale unequaled since the Italian Renaissance. The three: stocky, effusive Diego Rivera; grim, brooding José Clemente Orozco; pallid, green-eyed, conspiratorial David Alfaro Siquieros...
...boatload of marines armed with rifles with fixed bayonets. There are times for heroes, times for diplomats. Forty-two-year-old Captain Lorber was a hero to more than his Baltimore family. He had behind him a record of a million miles of overwater flying, aerial explorations of the Yucatan's Mayan ruins, of Brazil's Mato Grosso jungles. But this was no time for heroes. Captain Lorber gave...
...Evidence of Eskimo culture in Yucatan...
...exploits. About nearly all of them there was an element of bravery and an element of bravura. He swam the Panama Canal (in installments), followed, on foot, the course of 1) Cortez' conquest of Mexico, 2) Balboa's march across Darien to the Pacific. He wandered through Yucatan, Peru and Brazil, with a pet monkey that died at last from overeating. He swam the Sea of Galilee, appeared in a movie called India Speaks, rode an elephant over the Alps. He grew older (he was 39 last January), but never grew...