Word: itza
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...largest ancient temple, built on the Nile for Amon-Ra about 1500 B.C., is aligned so the midwinter sunrise strikes the altar in the high room of the sun. More than a dozen Maya sites built around 500 B.C. mark the cycles of the sun, and Chichen Itza, like Stonehenge, clearly shows the extremes of lunar movement. On the banks of the Mississippi near St. Louis, observing posts at the largest city-temple complex built by Indian tribes in the U.S. (circa A.D. 800-1 550) chart the solstices and equinoxes. So far the only baffling exception is the hodgepodge...
...caught in the same interval between being born and dying." A feckless young artist (Robert Wolders) is unaccountably smitten by her, and they begin one of those romances that require them to wander around a lot of picturesque locations - Yucatan, in this case. The antique splendors of Chichen Itza make the passions of Interval seem petty indeed, but so would a brisk round of Parcheesi...
...After climbing the ruins of Palenque, Uxmal and Chichen Itza, snorkeling at Cozumel, flying to Chicago, then driving a nine-year-old Thunderbird, our 15-year-old grandson and Willy, our dachshund, home to Wellsburg, W. Va., in eleven hours (legally, too), f grab my beloved TIME and find I "passed the arbitrary milestone of 65 into the limbo of old age" five years ago. I didn't know...