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Graves himself practiced a highly personalized form of intellectual witchcraft. With a clash of symbols and his customary brass, he rejected the Judaeo-Christian patriarchy for his White Goddess...
More metaphor than mythology, the Goddess is vital to Graves' poetry and much more. "The political and social confusion of the last 3,000 years," he once told a visitor, "has been entirely due to man's revolt against woman as a priestess of the natural magic, and his defeat of wisdom by the use of intellect...
Seymour-Smith spares readers another torturous slog through the Great Dionysus-Apollo Rift. Instead, he concentrates productively on Graves' leading partner in Goddess worship, Poet Laura Riding, who lived with him from 1926 to 1939. The couple never exchanged marriage vows and after a brief time even stopped sleeping together. The relationship began in London with the blessing of Graves' first wife, Nancy Nicholson, who bore the poet four children but refused to accept his name...
...stands for Missile Experimental, which hardly inspires confidence. So President Reagan let it be known he wanted to rename it. The National Security Council suggested Themis, for the Greek goddess of order and justice. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger's choice was Guardian Missile. National Security Adviser William Clark proposed Peacemaker, after the Colt .45 that belonged to his grandfather and now hangs on a wall in his office. This caught the President's fancy, but White House aides pointed out that the name Peacemaker might violate a copyright or, even worse, be twisted into a pejorative: Pacemaker. Reagan...
...approaching 3 a.m. Dinner and conversation are over, but Raquel cannot let go. A few days later she phones, eager to clear up possible misperceptions. She blames the press for many of the problems she has had trying to shed her role as sex goddess, and she wants to make a special plea for fairness. "I'm upstairs," she says into the telephone, somewhat breathlessly, "and even Andre doesn't know I'm calling you. I probably shouldn't call, but I think I've received a pretty bum rap from a lot of people...