Word: guatemalans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hondurans sported pine sprigs in their lapels, grinned a new greeting "Pinos de Honduras." Pine twigs appeared on Government desks. For this piney atmosphere, a tiny, cherubic Guatemalan, Juan José Orozco Posadas, was responsible...
Orozco, private secretary to Guatemalan President Juan José Arévalo, had been concerned about the repressed democrats of neighboring Honduras (which, with Nicaragua, had the last dictator-run government in Central America). Orozco went on the radio, broadcast to his neighbors: "Only the pines growing high on Honduras' proud mountains have remained free in that martyred land. And their roots go deep. 'Pines of Honduras' must become the password in the struggle to make Honduras free...
Brown felt most secure in the 150 yd. backstroke. But here again the Crimson's Frank Krayer bumped concrete first as Callahan's finishing kick faded in the last lap. Brown turned around the 100 yd. breaststroke to beat Julio Vielman, Ulen's Guatemalan butterflier. The Crimson came back in the 440, however, as Ted Norris finished well ahead of the pack...
...much less salable commodity in Boston-his side line. This week, in a redbrick, 78-year-old Back Bay mansion, right next door to the stuffy Guild of Boston Artists on swank Newbury Street, he opened an art gallery with an exhibition of 53 paintings by a Guatemalan Indian, Carlos Mérida...
...years he worked hard at piano, musical theory and composition, but an ear infection made him too deaf to go on with it. At 17, he went to Paris to study art and slavishly imitated his teachers, Van Dongen and Modigliani. Back home he discovered and concentrated on Guatemalan folk themes, spearheading the racial art movement which revolutionized Latin American painting. Later he went abstract, tried to paint a kind of visual music which would be empty of pictorial meaning, but beautifully composed and rich in color harmonies. In 1937 Mérida got tired of pure abstractionism, and began...