Word: charioteer
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...followed by seven camel warriors armed with 18th Century blunderbusses. Then came a mile-long procession of boys & girls marching to seven brass bands and gaily decked out in the hues of the Dominion of India's tricolor: green, white and orange. At the end, in a silver chariot drawn by four snow-white pedigreed bullocks with green painted horns, came mountainous Congress President Bhogarazu Pattabhi Sitaramayya, smothered in marigold garlands and beaming like the grand marshal of a St. Patrick's Day Parade on Fifth Avenue...
...women of Columbia University. It maintains its own faculty, and remains completely independent of Columbia College It has, however, a tradition reminiscent of Columbia's Freshman--Sophomore Rush, except that at Barnard they dress it up a bit and call it the Greek Games. The Greek Games consist of chariot races--one girl pulling, another wielding the whip and other Grecoid divertisements. The Games are reputed to be an even finer spectacle than the Wellesley Hoop Race...
...reflected nothing of the scholarly complexity of Chariot's mind, it did reflect the simplicity of his life, which centers about two poles: his work and his wife and four children. Chariot's wife, Zohmah, is a trim, dark lady who was raised in Brigham City, Utah, and abandoned the name of Dorothy Day after getting acquainted with Mexico as an art student. "When I married Jean," she confesses, "I thought 'I'm going to be an intellectual,' but instead he's taught me to read detective stories...
...Chariot is content to stay within the few blocks that hold the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, a Roman Catholic Church, and his white frame house on Boulder Crescent. Colorado has, of course, other attractions for Chariot. "Since I came to this outdoor-loving land," says he, "I am engaging in contemplating fishing. That is to say, I am contemplating...
...earlier example, a Chariot painting of the Nativity, appeared as TIME'S Christmas cover...