Word: alfaro
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Prudence Alfaro, a neighborhood resident who opposes the building, said yesterday she believes residents have responded favorably to the proposal because they are weary of fighting perpetual battles with Harvard over the land...
...Anibal Alfaro said yesterday he would not approve the proposal until the residents see concrete plans for the structure, because he said "one cannot O.K. plans one doesn't know...
Died. David Alfaro Siqueiros, 77, flamboyant Mexican muralist and onetime Communist leader; of cancer; in Cuernavaca, Mexico. The last survivor of the famed triumvirate of painters who celebrated Mexico's peasant revolution (Jose Clemente Orozco died in 1949, Diego Rivera in 1957), Siqueiros was as noted for his political acts as for his artistic achievements. In the '60s he spent four years in jail for stirring up student demonstrations, and in 1967 he was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize by the Soviet Union. Siqueiros' crude, bold, bright murals of historical and revolutionary scenes were sometimes caricature, sometimes...
...many Communists with 20 jail terms behind them have the President of the Republic turn out to do them honor. David Alfaro Siqueiros, however, was taking it all in stride. The occasion was the Mexico City opening of Polyforum, a culture center 2,735 yards long, for which the 75-year-old Siqueiros has created the architecture, engineering, painting and sculpture. "It is an atheistic temple," said he. "It is not to adore God but to adore man." Nevertheless, among the encomiums came a cable from the Vatican, wishing "that your artistic message in favor of peace, justice, hope, brotherhood...