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Ceremonially blowing smoke to the four winds, Mayan priests puffed their pipes to please the gods; the Sioux passed around the calumet to seal the peace; 16th century Frenchman Jean Nicot (whose name is immortalized in the word nicotine) promoted pipe smoking as a sure cure for ulcers; and 19th century authors rhapsodized like Bulwer-Lytton: "A pipe, it is a great soother, a pleasant comforter. Blue devils fly before its honest breath. It ripens the brain, it opens the heart, and the man who smokes thinks like a Samaritan...
...what might come next? Like a Mayan Temple. "I think we are going back to the solid mass," said Harold Spitznagel of Sioux Falls, S.D. "In New York you can see some evidence of this, and the recent Boston City Hall competition proves the point even more sharply. That building looks like a Mayan temple." The winner (out of 256 entries) in the Boston competition is as exotically daring as anything Boston has ever seen. Designed by Gerhard Kallman, Noel Mc-Kinnell and Edward F. Knowles, all of Columbia University, it combines traditional Boston brick with reinforced concrete...
...Stokowski decides to conduct one of the orchestra's 26 projected concerts, the event will take place August 10 in the acoustically perfect ball court of the Mayan ruins at Chichen Itza in Yucatan. Webster related yesterday that Stokowski, after testing the acoustics of the rectangular ball court many years ago, said: "I hope I never die before I can conduct here." A Mexican committee is inviting Stokowski to conduct...
...Signal Victory, by David Stacton. A cool, clear fictional account of the Mayan civilization's collapse before the Spanish conquest...
...Signal Victory, by David Stacton. A hard, glittering, epigrammatic account of the Spanish rape of the Mayan civilization, marred by a central character who just misses coming to life...