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Word: demigoddess (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...white demigoddess to servants on her Kenya coffee plantation, Danish-born Baroness Karen Blixen once beat back two lions with a bull whip, earned the affectionate appellation "Honorable Lioness." But in 1931, when the coffee market crumbled, she returned to her native land, assumed a name now known and respected throughout the literary world-Isak Dinesen. Last week at 75, the wispy (her weight: 70 lbs.) writer was honored with a statue of herself by California Sculptor Emile Norman. Depicting a wraithlike priestess with a lion and a bird, the work evoked the pre-Mau Mau Kenya that Isak Dinesen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 17, 1961 | 2/17/1961 | See Source »

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