Word: charioteer
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...convent, included a Punishment of Juno to point up the perils of false pride. Taddeo di Bartolo decorated the chapel in Siena's Public Palace with a procession of Roman virtues-Prudence, Force, Magnanimity, Justice-plus Jupiter in his sun-god aspect, Mars thundering by in a boxlike chariot. Minerva. Apollo, Aristotle, Caesar, and the Roman general Manius Curius Dentatus...
...first came to the U.S., one of her first stops was at Tiffany's, where she ordered a silver tankard for the captain of the ship that had brought her from Sweden. P. T. Barnum was so impressed that he commissioned Tiffany's to design a silver chariot as a wedding present for his two famous midgets, General Tom Thumb and Lavinia Warren...
...reached the scene, many of the sadhus had fled, but a sturdy minority, including Pagala Baba, had retired to a maze of underground cells within the tunnel-honeycombed fortress, and had to be flushed out one by one with tear gas. In the courtyard the police found a huge chariot in which the mad monk's disciples were wont to haul him about. Statues of Pagala Baba were displayed in the gardens and orchards of the math. His bedroom was adorned with tiger skins and statuettes of nude women. Underground, behind steel doors, the police found an armory...
...both Russia and the U.S., young France sees mushrooming technological civilizations, and doubts if it can ever catch up to them. Observed André Labarthe in the highbrow magazine La Nef: "French youth discovers itself harnessed to a chariot that has been bogged down for 50 years and whose drivers can only look backwards...
...writes out of a past in which the center of life is still the big family household-including servants, "companions." nurseries, long corridors, enormous rooms. But her characters are no more untrue to life for this than Oedipus would be for driving around in an automobile instead of a chariot. In Mother & Son, middle-aged Rosebery is in just the same fix as Oedipus: he cannot escape from life with mother. Aged Miranda is seeking to hire a companion because she thinks it is time for her elderly son to stop following her around. But the Fates know that neither...