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FOREWORD Much has been written and discussed in recent years concerning the relationship of modernity to architecture. In this regard, it is very difficult to precisely understand the concept of modernity in a country such as Mexico, where apparent opposites converge . . . rootedness and...

In reading Judith Marlane's Women in Television News Revisited: Into the Twenty-first Century, my own mind revisited a ten-day trial in August 1983. Christine Craft won her breach of contract lawsuit against Metromedia, Inc., in which she charged she had been dropped as an evening anchor from its...

Introduction Juan Carlos Onetti, the most important Uruguayan writer of this Century, was born in Montevideo in 1909. He has spent much of his life as a writer in Argentina and more recently in Spain, yet his writ-ing is distinctly the product of the cosmopolitan little country of his birth....

PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION The preparation of this second English edition of Vladimir Propp's Morphology of the Folktale had two major objectives. The first was to make some changes in the text of the first edition for the sake of completeness and uniformity. In this regard, note should be...

HOW TO USE THE HEMISFAIR SUPPLEMENT This Supplement is designed to serve two purposes: (1) As a brief introduction to HemisFair '68, with emphasis on the lasting transformation that it has brought to San Antonio, and (2) As an updating of the originál edition of SAN ANTONIO: A HistoricaJ and...

FOREWORD At the end of a seminar conducted in Mexico by the Committee on Cultural Relations with Latin America—a seminar during which we had gone on trips, listened to lectures, and had contacts with authorities on many phases of life in Mexico—Hubert Herring said something like this, "Now...