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...Canary Islands and wind up in Yucatan, Mexico, has all of the earmarks of a frivolous publicity stunt. In fact, it is a serious experiment in role reversal and cultural conflict conceived by Santiago Genoves, a Mexican anthropologist who went along on Thor Heyerdahl's papyrus boat Ra expeditions...
...rich and corrupt Third Republic, rabid French anticlericalism had turned the church into an intellectual ghetto. At the school itself, a narrow-minded empiricism ruled out serious study of spiritual matters. One day, as Maritain walked hand in hand through a Paris park with his Jewish girl friend Raïssa, the two vowed that if they could find no meaning to life beyond the merely material, they would commit suicide within a year...
Scorn. That despair suddenly dissolved when they heard lectures at the College de France by Philosopher Henri Bergson, whose theories of creative evolution exalted the spirit of man and his ability to find basic reality through intuition. Then, in 1905, Jacques and Raïssa, now newlyweds, happened into a life-changing friendship with Novelist Léon Bloy, a wild, irascible spirit and passionate Catholic who preached to his smug culture that faith and social conscience were inseparable. "Money," Bloy once wrote, "is the blood of the poor." Both of the Maritains were baptized as Catholics...
Such ovations have become familiar to Solti throughout the U.S. and Europe. In addition to conducting the Chicago Symphony for twelve weeks this season, he devoted ten weeks to the Orchestre de Paris (he also serves as its music director). A month ago, at the 700-seat Opéra Louis XV at the Versailles Palace, he led an exquisitely wrought performance of Mozart's Marriage of Figaro by the Paris Opéra (he serves as that company's music adviser). In London, which he calls home these days, Solti regularly guest-conducts the London Philharmonic...
...Panama. "It is difficult to comprehend," he said, "how a country that has characterized itself as noncolonial insists on maintaining a colony in the heart of our country. Never will we add another star to the flag of the United States." Cuba's acerbic Foreign Affairs Minister Raúl Roa joined in with a tirade against the U.S. for "its perfidy and its claws." Communist China's Huang Hua added: "U.S. imperialism has subjected the Latin American countries to aggression and enslavement...