Word: goddess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ashamed to Beg." In Sofia last week, three judges sat in front of a heroic mural of the blindfolded Goddess of Justice. Behind the defendants and their armed guards was a special section reserved for the defendants' relatives. First to come before the court was the Rev. Nikola Naumov, president of the Supreme Council of Bulgaria's United Evangelical Churches. He had always been known to his friends as a man of staunch convictions. "I confess I am guilty," he said in a clear voice. "I am sincerely sorry for what I have done." He remained...
Aspirants for this goddess role, Promotor Jerome Kilty '49 announced yesterday, will be considered by mail, as a precaution to insure intellectual judgement. They should write the Harvard Theater Workshop at its Brattle Hall Theater home...
...opposed to Communism and Fascism not only because they are un-American, but also because they represent barbarism and anachronism allen to our civilization. Our object is not to worship the goddess Free Enterprise, but, first to define and then investigate the system, and see how it can be improved for the benefit of all America and of the whole world. Sirius Proestopoulos, '51 Vice-President, Free Enterprise Society
They were not nonsense: there was evident logic behind them. Even in his prewar and wartime effulgence, Hirohito was not worshiped as a personal god but as a symbol of the nation. Any other man (with a claim to descent from the sun goddess) would have served the purpose as well. But now, Hirohito is tarnished by his association with the malefactors who made the war and lost it. Hirohito's involvement will be highlighted shortly when Tojo and other top criminals receive their sentences...
Last week, on the eve of the crucial Wisconsin primary (see U.S. AFFAIRS), Oda really went to town. On one side of his doorway he pasted a colored drawing of the Statue of Liberty. But in place of the goddess' face and diadem were the features and military cap of Douglas MacArthur. At the figure's feet, in a litter of skulls and bones, lay a trampled black dragon, "Anti-Democracy," with features unmistakably resembling Joseph Stalin's. Oda's latest ode was tacked to the opposite doorway...