Word: locales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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John Ratte '57, also a second year graduate student, and a former Rhodes scholar and class poet, is staging the review. Ratte has designed many sets for local productions including the H.D.C. production of "Hamlet...
Clamen was the producer for the Gilbert and Sullivan Players as an undergraduate, while the associate producer, Peter B. Kane '60, has directed several local productions including "The Questioning of Nick," the first play by Arthur L. Kopit...
...cuts. Instead, he called for the extension of some expiring taxes and for increases in others. He asked that the 52% tax on corporate income, scheduled to drop to 47% after June 30, be maintained at present levels for another year. He also requested that the 10% excise on local telephone calls and transportation be continued, that the federal gasoline tax be raised from 4? to 4½?, that taxes on standard aviation fuel (now 2?) and jet fuels (now exempt) be put at 4½?, and that the rate on first-class letters go up from...
...Christianize the heathen, Conquistador Pedro de Alvarado took thoughtful note of the fact that much of the rites of the Mayas' animistic religion resembled Roman Catholicism. The Mayas burned candles and incense, venerated relics, held processions. Alvarado's priests seized on the common ground; they gave the local gods the names of saints, the Virgin and Christ, and pushed on to convert other pagans...
...Indians accepted the new gods enthusiastically, but kept the old, and melded the two into a strange religion of their own. Villages had special local deities. Chichicastenango Indians lit candles in the church, then offered candles, liquor and even crosses on a three-foot-high stone figure of the pagan god Pascual-Abaj on a hill behind the church. Santiago Atitlán's favorite was Maximón, a raffish deity with four hats and an uninhibited libido...