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CALLING FOR HELP, by Peter Handke, and VLADIMIR MAYA-KOVSKY: A TRAGEDY, by Vladimir Mayakovsky. If this tragedy isn't calling for help, I'm a grasshopper. This weekend's your last chance to see it. 8:30 at the Old Cambridge Baptist Church, 1151 Mass...
...volunteer is effective also because he can remain separated from local prejudices. The Peace Corps show a degree of respect for the Maya highland Indians which the Latin extensionists rarely use. For example, the customary Latin address to the Indian is the form 'vos'--the equivalent of saying 'boy' to a grown man. Volunteers always use the formal 'Usted' address...
...secondary theaters, art-exhibition space, a chamber-music room and a restaurant, would be anchored to float above a massive platform containing the several hundred utility rooms of the Opera House. Utzon's podium originated with a 1949 visit to Mexico, where he studied the ruins of Maya architecture: the monumental stairways and levels of buildings like the Temple at Uxmal in Yucatan were to be reflected in the Opera House's huge entrance stair. Finally, vaults and base were to be linked by hung glass walls with plywood ribs, flexing outwards like the primaries of a gull...
...moon behavior - the author has found a "cosmic orientation" nearly everywhere. The world's 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...
Hawkins rejects the widespread notion that literacy is the essential mark of a complex civilization. Stonehengers, who have been described as "howling barbarians," apparently did not read or write. But, he argues, they shared with Egyptian, Maya and other cultures something more important than a writ ten language: a sense of time, of per spective, of man's place in the cosmic scheme. · Alan Anderson