Word: goddess
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Above all things-perhaps even above the great goddess of fire herself-the Scythians adored decoration and adornment, and from this came their one important legacy. Even their arrows, though likely to be lost after one shot, bore intricate designs. No great warrior's belt or horse's harness lacked gold plaques. Being nomads, the Scythians found their outlet not in statues or cities but in things that could be worn. Whatever talent might have poured into architecture or grand statuary went into the molding of sculptures of gold...
Died. Anita Stewart, 65, Brooklyn-born star of such silent films as The Goddess, a redhaired, brown-eyed beauty who never lost her looks, yet once dismissed sex appeal with the comment: "Oomph! How I hate that word!"; apparently of a heart attack; in Beverly Hills, Calif...
...myth via the Hippolytus of Euripides. Hippolytus is the bastard son of Theseus, slayer of the Minotaur, and Hippolyte, single-breasted queen of the Amazons. He lives in the home of Theseus and Theseus' young bride Phaedra. An outdoors he-man sort, Hippolytus neglects the service of Aphrodite, goddess of love. The goddess puts a sex hex on Phaedra, who is consumed with a ravenous passion for her stepson Hippolytus. She is rebuffed in her advances, and in revenge tells Theseus that the boy has made attempts on her virtue. Theseus prays to his father, the sea god Poseidon...
...Reader Barth recall that the owl is a symbol of Greek Goddess Athena, goddess of wisdom...
...Bess was only an interlude: she still wanted a career in grand opera, and she started on that road by giving her first serious recital at Town Hall in the fall of 1954. The critics were enthusiastic, especially the Herald Tribune's Jay Harrison, who detected "a goddess performing among us." She has spent six seasons singing on the Community Concert circuit and in 1955 broke into opera as the lead in the NBC Tosca. Casting a Negro in the role, says Leontyne composedly, "created quite a rumpus, but it was a successful rumpus." At any rate, she feels...