Word: mayan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some Belizeans- who are an ethnic mix of African, Mayan, Caribbean and European descendants - were still nervous that their little country had been left vulnerable by independence. Opposition politicians went so far as to protest the new status and boycott the independence ceremonies. But Prime Minister Price, 62, carried his country along, just as he has dominated it since Britain granted Belize self-rule in 1964. Says one diplomat: "He certainly knows how to use the levers of power." A onetime Roman Catholic seminarian, Price led the struggle for independence after his political party was founded...
Lezberg will bring a long career of teaching experience to her post in the Peace Corps: a summer teaching high-school students French and Mayan culture at Wellesley's "exploration' program, a stint as a Spanish instructor for teachers at Boston middle schools. and occasional substitute teaching in Spanish at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy...
...search for an answer has taken her as far as Central America, where during a leave of absence junior year she did archeological fieldwork and studied the ancient Mayan civilization...
...paper whe wrote on her symbolic analysis of a Mayan myth--the polpovuh--won the Bowdoin Prize this year...
...something that happens to individuals. If a society or a century is considered as a whole, the random individual events that are set down to luck or fortune form more coherent overall patterns; large historical forces become discernible. But entire societies should not mock luck either. The classic Mayan civilization disappeared so strangely, so precipitously, that some massive stroke of bad luck must have been at work-a sudden plague, say, a viral riot...