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Piccadilly Circus was jammed with Londoners and country folk braving showers in summer frocks and flannels. Red bunting, dripping in the rain, hung from the steel railings, and gramophone records blared London Pride. In a clean white apron and battered hat, wizened old Polly Beecham, who has sold her flowers...
Last week, on his 54th birthday, after a long wartime evacuation, Eros, the winged, aluminum god of love, returned to his Piccadilly pedestal. Cheers greeted him as he drove up in a lorry. A drunk tossed a carnation with the words "From one Eros to another," and ducked away from...
The old street had not changed much. The prostitution trade was as brisk as ever while Eros was hiding out. But if the god had deserted his old post for the duration, he had certainly not been idle elsewhere. Last week, just before Eros returned to Piccadilly Circus, Health Minister...
Lion & Unicorn. Philosopher D'Arcy is mainly concerned with the twofold aspect of love-eros (love in its selfish, passionate forms) and agape (the selfless Christian love for one's neighbor, which Paul called "charity"). Most philosophical speculation on the subject has posed these two as ancient enemies...
The Argonauts went on without Hercules. But when they reached Colchis, it was the goddess Aphrodite who won the Fleece for them. She made her son Eros wait behind a pillar with his bow until handsome Jason strode into the King of Colchis' palace. Then Eros shot Medea, the...