Word: goddess
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...life-sized nude statue of Sabrina, goddess of Britain's Severn River, has led a hectic existence ever since a state official first presented her to Amherst College in 1857.* From the first, Amherst men heaped indignities upon her, painting stockings on her shapely limbs, clothing her in gaudy diapers, lugging her away from her pedestal to celebrate football victories. In the '80s, Amherst's president tried to banish her from the campus, but the janitor charged with her disposal confessed that he "couldn't kill a woman" and hid Sabrina in his own barn...
...were firmly orthodox in declaring their belief in a personal rather than an impersonal God (one came out for no God at all), and 271 accepted the divinity of Christ. (Nineteen checked "a noble man only"; one, "just a symbol of good, like Santa Claus or the Goddess of Liberty...
Idler has managed to assemble for the cast a very attractive group of young women. Often, only their presence on stage is enough to add charm to the production. In fact, the Goddess of Peace, Alice Walsh, speaks not a word, but she shines when the leader of the old men gently spanks her at the end of the play and says, "Indeed, there's a fine bottom to this Peace...
Byplay is provided by a love affair between an old man (Milton Schlein '53) and an old woman who are too old to be affected by the movement. Finally the "goddess of peace" (Alice Walsh '52) comes down to earth and restores peace, thus making the protest demonstration unnecessary...
Frightened travelers who managed to make their way out of the earthquake region told of entire villages that had been swallowed. Thousands of people and cattle were marooned on islands in flooded areas. Brahmin priests performed propitiation ceremonies to the goddess of earth and the god of destruction. The quake had not yet spent itself. Hills were still disappearing and new hills were rising out of the laboring earth. Peasants in the area sat in numb and sleepless terror, watching tumblers half-filled with water for signs of further tremors. At the slightest trembling of the water, they would rush...