Word: goddess
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Genius and the Goddess, by Aldous Huxley, discoursed with somewhat diminished brilliance on sexual infidelity at the genius level, grace and predestination in life, and the human limitations that accompany a very high...
Last week, as Citroën displayed a radically new model in its showrooms, it made France's biggest auto news in years. Nicknamed the "Goddess," it has a long, duckbilled front reminiscent of the 1953 Studebaker, a plastic roof and half a dozen mechanical improvements, e.g., hydropneumatic suspension to keep the car on a constant level. The four-cylinder, 75-h.p. engine does 25 miles to the gallon and can get the Goddess up to 87 m.p.h...
Measuring 15 ft. 9 in. bumper to bumper, the Goddess is the longest, roomiest (six passengers) mass-production model in France and, at 930,000 francs ($2,657), the costliest. But by week's end thousands of Frenchmen had plunked down cash deposits of $215 apiece, virtually bought out production for the next 27 months...
...From the Greek irapOkvos, virgin-as in Parthenon, temple of the virgin goddess Athena...
...Isaiah, who roused the Jews out of their Babylonian captivity.* The book's religious message is swaddled in what Hollywood calls "production values," e.g., a 3-D tour of Nebuchadnezzar's Palace of the Hanging Gardens in Babylon, the orgiastic rites of a harlot votary of the goddess Ishtar ("Her breasts were encased in golden bowls"), Belshazzar's feast at which a disembodied hand dooms King and country with the famed handwriting on the wall...