Word: mayas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Palestinians. For years, the P.L.O. has operated from heavily populated areas. Yasser Arafat knew that an Israeli counterattack would result in heavy civilian losses. The security of his terrorist organization was and still is more important to him than the safety of people he claims to be defending. Michael Maya Oak Ridge, Tenn...
...women who did something beyond themselves, whatever their reasons. It is a memorial to the young and their nation, to the coming together finally in human tribute. G.I.s and Presidents will walk side by side in memory. Differences will merge. The memorial design is by a Chinese American, Maya Ying Lin, 22. The monument's sponsors are asking that demonstrators for any cause be perpetually banned from the site (as they are in Arlington National Cemetery), so that the tribute to sacrifice will not be corrupted by partisan politics or positions...
Viet Nam Veterans Memorial, Washington, B.C. Maya Y. Lin, designer. A brilliantly simple solution to the emotion-charged problem of honoring 57,709 victims of the controversial...
...winning design, picked from among 1,421 entries last May in a national competition, was submitted by a Chinese American, Maya Ying Lin, 22. "I've studied funerary architecture, the relation of architecture to death," says Lin. She has pointed the 200-ft.-long walls of her memorial west to the Lincoln Memorial and east to the Washington Monument. On those walls will be listed the names of the 57,709 Americans who died or were declared missing in Viet Nam. The names will appear in chronological, not alphabetical, order (another source of criticism). The roll begins...
Last spring, the foundation awarded unrestricted five-year grants, ranging from $40,000-$60,000 a year, to three Harvard scholars--Robert Coles '50, professor of Psychiatry and Medical Humanities, Stephen J. Gould, professor of Geology and Ian Graham, assistant curator of the Maya hieroglyphics in the Peabody Museum--in recognition of their achievements and future promise. The new grant is intended to recognize the needs of institutions, as well as individuals, Furman said...