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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...
...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...
...early bronzes and terra cottas were heavily influenced by French Cubist Sculptor Henri Laurens, and their dominant rhythm was taken from Mayan art-a blockish, crankshaft-like sequence of shapes. They may have been stylistically uncertain, but they were powerful, and on seeing them, a leading New York dealer named Nierendorf gave Nevelson her first one-woman show, in 1941. She was past 40, an age when some artists start thinking not about their debuts but about their retrospectives...
Howard, who will use Peabody artifacts in an exhibit on Mayan culture, added that if the program succeeds, NEH may fund similar programs with other institutions...