Word: goddesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...antique patina. His bronzes are left pitted by their plaster casts or are particolored from carefully ladled-on corrosive dyes; his wooden statuary is daubed with earthy tints, oil paints clinging to the surfaces as in flaking frescoes. Even his lush-thighed Pomonas, named for the ancient Italian goddess of fruit trees, seem like the petrified victims of the last days of Pompeii. But as currently displayed in Rome's 500-year-old Palazzo Venezia, at one time the residence of the ambassador of the proud Venetian Republic, the hefty nudes look like steaming courtesans in the Baths...
...went something like this: Mr. Scully was lecturing on Greek art, on the Feminine God of Minoan Crete, and while "entranced," fell off the platform into the lap of a beautifully endowed female in the front row. He leaped up, ringingly proclaiming, "Into the arms of the Mother Goddess!" and then went on with renewed articulateness...
...conveniently rushes in, is promptly swallowed (whole), and the scene ends with the chorus solemnly incanting, "O disgrace cruelle ... Hippolyte n'est plus." (Needless to say, the libretcist took his liberties with Rachine's Phedre; Paristans must have been pleased to find the evil Queen disappearing painlessly, and the goddess Diana bringing Hippolyte back to each, in her mechanical cloud, in the last...
...drama begins in the psychiatrist's villa, where the young man is easily persuaded to fall in love with a beautiful young woman who may or may not be a ghost. A few pages later she turns into the goddess Diana, and with her crescent bow and shining arrow slaughters a satyr who comes galloping along. All at once, the young man is captured by a troop of German soldiers and forced to witness the brutalization of some partisans they have captured. A little later, just as he is about to make love to the gorgeous ghost...
...three poems translated from the Russian. Drevid McCord Stroud '66 offers five rather short, light poems which are a welcome change from the usual social protests. "Love: Tabled" and "The Devil May Care" are perhaps the best, but everyone's favorite will be "On The William James Hall": "White goddess or invader/The ministry of Truth on our horizon,/House of the hidden persuader:/Kyrie eleison...