Word: christian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...triumphal march I walked right up to the center of the stage. The Christian Science Monitor said this scene was the best part of the opera, and added, "The always amazing business of deploying the throng without confusion was managed with the usual skill...
Courses in economics, social sciences, and American history were recommended for the potential journalist by Robert R. Brunn, San Francisco correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor. He said, "Newspapering is more than a craft or an ability to string words together...
...snoozing beside his wife in the "Late Christian Epoch" (the 20th Century) when the Goddess "evokes" him into an unstated time in the future. At first glance, he thinks New Crete looks wonderful. Money and machinery have been abolished; matriarchy has made everybody happy; poets, witches and magicians are thick as nuts and considered an elite class...
...soon finds out, when the Goddess herself appears in the form of an unscrupulous female named Erica-a "triple-faced, ash-blonde bitch" with whom Poet Venn-Thomas had had a gruesome love affair in the Late Christian Epoch. What Erica does to overcivilized New Crete is something awful. She plants some 20th Century cigarettes in the closet of a cute little nymph named Sapphire; she fouls up the witches, hexes the horses, mortifies the magicians. By the time she's through, New Crete is on the verge of collapse-at which point Poet Venn-Thomas sensibly decides...
...stand out-as another rich expression of Robert Graves's fantastical mind. To laugh in the face of his Goddess is only natural; but without this pure yet beastly muse Graves would probably not be what he emphatically is-one of the finest poets of the Late Christian Epoch...