Word: goat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wandering outside the temple precincts, she found the answer-a human lover in the guise of a one-armed soldier. But the god tolerated no mortal rival. Her lover died in a mysterious accident, and a temple goat, sacred symbol of the god himself, ravished her during one of her ecstasies. Pregnant, she was stoned out of the temple, to bear her child on a mountainside, midwifed only by sympathetic goats. The years did not answer her agonizing question: How was her gentle idiot son begotten-by the one-armed soldier or in that capric caprice...
...tells the Wanderer her story, and when it is done her witless godchild (or was it a goat-child?) has disappeared. The outcast Pythia and the outcast Jew follow his footprints up the mountainside. They grow fainter and fainter, finally disappear altogether. Then she knows. "The father has fetched him home...
Turning 80 this week on his North Carolina goat farm, Poet-Biographer Carl Sandburg anticipated living to be 88, maybe even 99. Cried he: "It's inevitable, it's inexorable, it's written in the Book of Fate!" Reason: two of his great-grandfathers and one of his grandfathers expired at ages divisible by eleven...
Blessed Mother Goose. Other critics scoff at the nearly total domination of kiddies' books by such animals as Saggy Baggy Elephant, Curious Little Owl, Peter the Sea Trout, Cottontail Rabbit, Brush Goat, Milk Goat, Cuter Tooter (a donkey), Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Little Brown Bear, The Happy Lion, Big Brown Bear, Mister Dog, Shy Little Kitten, Snuggly Bunny, Thidwick, the Big-Hearted Moose. Not that animals are new in fables, but now nearly all writers of children's stories seem to suggest that 1) the animal kingdom has become an animal democracy where no one would ever...
...intense, square-jawed Chinese artist stared fixedly at the rice paper taped to the wall, his wolf-and-goat-hair brush poised in his hand like a dart. Suddenly he reached to the top of the paper, in four bold downward strokes brushed in four broad segments of a bamboo stalk. He quickly dipped the brush again in the porcelain bowl of mixed water and ink, drew a long soaring line in one continuous, caressing gesture to form the narrow bamboo shoot, then rapidly brushed in the broad leaves. In two minutes, 40 seconds the painting was completed. As Huang...