Pat Fleishcr,
in An~iu~gazine(May-June 1979), 234
Connection Eglinton Ave. East, Toronto, Ontario,
Canada M4P 1K5.
The highly sophisticated Mayan civilization of southern Mexico flourished from about 1500B.C. to roughly A.D. 1200. Advanced in math- ematics and astronomy, the Mayas developed, among other things, an accurate calendar and an 850-character system of hieroglyphics. Then, for unknown reasons, its leaders and priests abandoned their temple cities and disappeared.
Today, farming...
their Chinese vis- itors, Olmec "priests, artists, architects, and astronomers set the pace for later people (probably the Mayas) who conquered them and devel- oped the culture further."
"Tennyson's Crimean War Poetry: A
They Wanted Cross-Cultural Approach" Michael C.
C. Adams, in Journal of the History of
a Lovely War Ideas (July-Sept. 1979), Temple Univer- sity, Humanities Bldg., Philadelphia, Pa. 19122.
Modern critics of Alfred Lord Tennyson's Crimean War poetry ("Maud,"...
'The LastSupper' Milton Gendel, in ARTnews (Summer 1979). 121 Garden St., Marion, Ohio
Needs Saving 43302.
Leonardo da Vinci's famous mural, The Last Supper (1495-97), has never adhered well to the wall in the Dominican friars' refectory of the church of St. Maria delle Grazie in Milan. Dissatisfied with the tech- nique of painting frescoes on wet plaster (because he was a slow worker), Leonardo experimented with an oil-tempera medium that failed to penetrate and bond with the plaster, as fresco...
'The LastSupper' Milton Gendel, in ARTnews (Summer 1979). 121 Garden St., Marion, Ohio
Needs Saving 43302.
Leonardo da Vinci's famous mural, The Last Supper (1495-97), has never adhered well to the wall in the Dominican friars' refectory of the church of St. Maria delle Grazie in Milan. Dissatisfied with the tech- nique of painting frescoes on wet plaster (because he was a slow worker), Leonardo experimented with an oil-tempera medium that failed to penetrate and bond with the plaster, as fresco...
the governnlent's rural anti-guerrilla operations and the arrest of several key members in 1968. It concentrated its efforts in the hinterland, write Morel1 and Samudavanija, who teach political science at Princeton and at Thai- land's Chulalongkorn University, respectively. But, after 1973, in the new liberal climate, the party was free to proselytize among the stu- dents. Its agents distributed party publications on the campuses and emphasized to student leaders that the egalitarian society they...
Ann Crit-tendon, in Foreign Affairs (Summer 1979),
P.O. Box 2615,Boulder, Colo. 80322.
After two wars, Israel's economy is in serious straits, writes Crittendon, economics specialist for the New York Times. The statistics are grim. Prices rose almost 50 percent in 1978. The national debt stands at $12.5 billion, the world's largest per capita. The
PERIODICALS
OTHER NATIONS
balance-of-payments deficit last year was $3.25 billion, nearly one- fourth of the country's Gross National Product.
Prime M...
1972, the figure was $800 n~illion. Military expendi- tures hit $2 billion in 1975. In the fall of 1977, the new Begin govern- ment "floated" the Israeli pound to make exports cheaper, removed or reduced export subsidies, and eliminated certain currency controls to attract foreign investors. This "New Econon~ic Policy" was a moderate success. Exports rose 25 percent in 1978, and foreign investment in- creased more than 50 percent. But Begin failed to accompany these measures...
Shell and Exxon in Curacao and Aruba, refine more Venezuelan crude than does Venezuela). These service contracts enable the multi- nationals to take more money out of the country, Bye suspects, because the foreigners no longer re-invest in the Venezuelan plants.
Meanwhile, the government's net oil income has dropped: It is invest- ing heavily in oil and other heavy industries and must pay indemnifica- tion ($1 billion over five years) to the multinationals. Left out, Bye contends, are Venezuela's...
by Robert Dallek
Oxford, 1979
657 pp. $19.95
L of C 78-7910