Word: athenee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Graves's theory is that the first four chapters of Genesis were written by a priest living in Jerusalem after the return of the Jews from exile in Babylonia. His priestly narrator was familiar with pre-exilic creation stories, and he used a set of Mycenaeo-Edomite pictorial tablets...
¶ Isabella Stewart Gardner of Boston was a plain Jane with weird endearing ways. All men were apparently fascinated by her. To Bernard Berenson, who constantly advised her on what to buy, she was "the Serpent of the Charles [River]." To T. Jefferson Coolidge she was "Aphrodite with a lining...
Before Pallas Athene sprang full-armored from his brow, Zeus had a dreadful headache. The U.S. Army had worse headaches getting the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, which adopted Pallas Athene as its symbol, dressed and going. But it was worth it.
Mrs. Hobby had headed the WAAC's preliminary planning program, which included the unhappy task of designing a corps uniform. The members of her staff, says the history, "faithfully wore sample undergarments while carrying on preplanning ; male planners offered their best guesses in the matter, and the staff became...
D.S.M. to G.O.P. Through it all, Oveta managed to seem both completely military and completely feminine. She was a memorable figure around the Pentagon, with her trim uniform, Pallas Athene insigne, prematurely silver hair (recently retouched maturely black) and visored "Hobby hat" (which looked fine on Oveta and terrible on...