Word: goddess
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...candles, television's most Spectacular season opened last week. NBC pronounced the summer prematurely over and raised the curtain on a season of high promise with a 90-minute version of the 1943 Broadway musical, One Touch of Venus. Janet Blair had the tiptoe grace required of a goddess awakened after slumbering for thousands of years in marble; Kurt Weill's pleasant music occasionally gave the show levitation; Russell Nype and George Gaynes struggled bravely against the shackling grasp of the heavyhanded plot. But Venus underlined the fact that once a Broadway musical is robbed of its racy...
...GENIUS AND THE GODDESS (168 pp.) Aldous Huxley-Harper...
Henry's jigger is his beautiful wife Katy. To John Rivers, a slightly priggish minister's son and a sexual teetotaler at 28, Katy is a lyric goddess, distant and holy as Dante's Beatrice. When a siege of illness puts Henry in an oxygen tent, John's Platonic devotion is rudely shattered. A shivering, sleepless Kate finds her way to his bed one night and stays there...
With his viscerosophical bifocals on, Huxley can make a subject like illicit sex seem excitingly muco-spiritual. But when it comes to fashioning moral judgments or making final points, The Genius and the Goddess manages to be as arbitrary-and as fuzzy-as the code of Hollywood's Johnston Office...
Sardonic "gusts of laughter" shake the goddess' sides, says Graves, when she sees the havoc that has prevailed ever since "the restless and arbitrary male will" usurped "the female sense of orderliness" and loosed upon civilization the sort of ruthless character typified by "Alexander, Pompey and Napoleon...