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...prominent heavenly body in the nighttime sky and thus more about the mysterious universe. Loved, feared, worshiped, the moon has figured in the mythology of most ancient people and has awed man since the beginning of human experience. The Greeks, who personified the moon in the form of the goddess Selene, were the first to study the lunar disk scientifically. They realized that their goddess was not luminous herself but shone only in the reflected light of the sun. They determined that the moon had mountains and valleys and that it always kept the same face turned toward earth...
...portions. To be loved by someone who knows his polymorphous pleasures. To be praised by someone who appreciates wit and brains and who is willing to hang in there night after night repeating the whole litany. To be a poet. To tap-dance beautifully. In short, to be a goddess with an indeterminate number of arms dipping ravenously into life's possibilities...
...most typical images. His biggest etching, Landscape with the Cannon, sets a turbaned Turk (which Dürer copied from a painting by Giovanni's older brother Gentile Bellini) in the midst of a landscape he sketched on the way to Bamberg. Around 1501 he engraved Nemesis?the goddess of fortune, bulbous as a German wardrobe, riding her sphere above the earth. Though it looks nothing like the studies in ideal proportion by Italian artists he had seen in Venice, her body in fact incorporates an intricate proportional scheme, while the landscape that spreads below is a microscopically accurate rendering...
Aggressive Ideal. Learson, whose present yacht is named Nepenthe (says he: "She's the Greek goddess who induces a pleasurable sensation of forgetful-ness"), went to work as a salesman for IBM immediately after graduating from Harvard in 1935. Offered a higher-paying job by competitor Remington Rand, Learson nonetheless chose IBM because its machines were electrical rather than mechanical. He rose to general sales manager at a crucial time. Learson still admits that parts of computer technology are "over my head," but in the early 1950s he and Tom Jr. strenuously argued, against the elder Watson...
Last week thousands of islanders streamed into the sleepy seaport town of Peikiang for the goddess's annual birthday celebration. While there are 383 Matsu temples on the island, Pei-kiang's is the oldest, and thus the most revered. Carrying their Matsu idols in little sedan chairs, the pilgrims jammed Peikiang's streets, exploding firecrackers and enjoying such sights as a parade of elegant floats, like the one at right, portraying ancient Chinese legends...