Word: dragons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...back him for Governor. On his official Attorney General stationery, Candidate Patterson wrote to the K.K.K. hate-sheet mailing list quoting "A mutual friend, Mr. R. N. (Bob) Shelton." To anybody on the list, that was enough, for, as every Kluxer knows, Tuscaloosa Rubberworker Shelton is the Grand Dragon...
...Storybook: "I'll return safely, and with Silverbud as my bride!" cried Abu Ali, the son of Aladdin. "Farewell! I leave for Samarkand!" In as delightful a piece of fluffy nonsense as Storyteller Temple has presented this season, Abu overcame the opposition of a smoke-breathing dragon and two villainous Oriental princes, won the princess' hand and heart. The Land of Green Ginger-a flying oasis that whimsically flitted about with its roots dangling-was satirically spoofy enough to entertain adults, was tricked up with a passel of fantastic gimmicks to bewitch children. Items: a magic carpet...
...There are modern textile factories on Java but. close by, a tiger may feast on a wild pig or water buffalo. Elephants trumpet in the rain forest; single-horned rhinos move like tanks through the deltaic swamps; the 10-ft. Komodo lizard looks out from thick underbrush like a dragon from the pages of Arthurian romances...
...whole range of man's art, from the caveman to Picasso, searching a "fresh correspondence between certain mythological concepts and life today." The subject she chose was the endless procession of legendary heroes locked in mortal combat with such ferocious beasts as the lion, wild bull and dragon. Treated with religious awe and epic endowments in their time, such old heroes never fade away, still have power in art. Dorothy Norman thinks she knows the reason. "Why," she asks, "do such age-old concepts as Theseus and the Minotaur, Job and Behemoth, continue to speak to us with such...
...relief, an Egyptian sculpture of the god Horus with lion-hunting gear, Heracles struggling barehanded with the Nemean Lion, as shown on a 5th century B.C. Greek vase, the herdsman subduing the ox in the Zen Buddhist Ox-Herding Pictures, a Russian icon showing St. George and the dragon. Oldest examples of her theme are drawings from the Lascaux Cave in France, done more than 30,000 years ago; one of the most recent is the symbolic bull in Picasso's heroless Guernica. Tied together with texts culled from sources that range from the Bible to the works...