Word: godse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jungle Gods. The diplomatic approach has its uses for archeologists too. In 1945, Giles Greville Healey, archeologist for the United Fruit Co., struggled on foot and muleback into the ruin-haunted jungle of Mexico's state of Chiapas. His assignment: to study the Lacandon Indians, thought to be the...
Healey lived with the Lacandones in their remote jungles. Little by little he learned some of their secrets. The Mayan "Old Empire" of the region had fallen long ago; tropical vegetation covered its ruins. But the handful of Lacandones still worship in Mayan temples, keeping the old gods alive.
Works by Eliot include "After Strange Gods," "The Use of Poetry," "Collected Poems," "Murder in the Cathedral," "The Family Reunion," and "Four Quartets."
One of the most heinous vengeances of ancient times was the riveting of Prometheus to the rock so the vultures could get at his vitals. Probably the most exquisite torment possible to our day would be to arrange carborundum filings in your enemy's teeth in such a way that...
Two Big Jumps. Whatever MacArthur's resolution of the prickly puzzle, the new and strangely hybrid Japanese labor movement will be an important factor in Japanese life for a long time to come. In a little more than a year of organizing, 4,400,000 workers have joined 17...