Word: cumaean
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...Waste Land was a deeply unoptimistic, un-Christian and therefore un-American poem, prefaced by the suicidal words of the Cumaean Sibyl, "I want to die." It is, we could say, the first Euro-poem. In its desolation at the breakup of the Judeo-Christian past, the poem turns for salvation to the Buddha and his three ethical commandments: Give, Sympathize, Control. But on the way to its ritually religious close ("Shantih, shantih, shantih"), it films a succession of loveless or violent or failed sexual unions--among the educated ("My nerves are bad tonight") and the uneducated ("He, the young...
What brought him forth was a controversy that had been building since the announcement on Dec. 7 that McGraw-Hill would publish The Autobiography of Howard Hughes, and LIFE would print excerpts from it. In one of the oddest consultations since those of the Cumaean sibyl, Hughes (or a man purporting to be him) spoke from Paradise Island for 2 hours with reporters arrayed before a telephone amplifier in a California hotel. The disembodied voice denied any knowledge of the book or its author. Later Hughes' agents sought an injunction to prevent its publication...
...refused to pay the great sum the Sibyl demanded. She destroyed six of the sacred nine. When he paid the original price for the remaining three and took them to Rome, Romans no longer had to make a long journey to learn what they wanted to do. The Cumaean Sibyl and her grotto lapsed into a legend—until last week...
...Amedeo Maiuri, 46, director of the National Museum in Naples and superintendent of the antiquities preserved in that neighborhood, has long been accustomed to make the 12 mi. trip to the Cumaean Rock and prowl speculatively through its grottoes. To the south side of the Rock are vineyards, whose owners use the caves to store their wine tuns. Something in one of the cellars attracted Dr. Maiuri's attention. He picked at a wall, found that it blocked a trapezium-shaped passageway 20 ft. high, 10 ft. wide at the bottom, 40 ft. long. Lateral tunnels...
...three small passageways leading to three pools where the Sibyl bathed before going through her leafy mysteries. Dr. Maiuri, delighted by the reality of what for 2,400 years had been deemed legend, stood silent, heard naught but the clop clop of water dripping from the crevices of the Cumaean Rock...