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...Mourad Saber sleeps with one eye open against the militarist, fascist Zionists? Who else could uncover a Central American conspiracy linking the United Fruit Co. and B'nai B'rith? Who else could resist the sensual, calculating Israeli agent Judith Hertz ("You have the body of a goddess but the soul of a devil")? Who else could interrupt an African chase to lecture streetwalkers in Lourenço Marques on the evils of colonialism...
...religious community. In 1952, the Missionaries of Charity -dressed in simple white, blue-bordered saris-won permission from Calcutta's authorities to set up a home for the dying destitute in a pilgrim hostel at the gate of a temple of Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction...
...Another Goddess. After examining the head herself last May, Miss Love decided that such neglect was completely unwarranted. It was carved of the fine-grained white Parian marble favored by Praxiteles, she explains, and the quality of workmanship, the late classical style and hairdo, the delicate folds in the neck, and the slightly larger-than-life dimensions all indicate that it came from the hand of the master...
...pleased by the suggestion that they had been ignoring a masterpiece in their very own building, British Museum officials hotly disputed Miss Love's identification. Modern experts, they noted, had concluded that the head was probably not of Aphrodite but of another figure in Greek mythology, Persephone, the goddess of spring. They also pointed out that the head was found by Sir Charles more than half a mile from the Temple of Aphrodite at the sanctuary of Persephone's mother, Demeter. That was not at all surprising, countered Miss Love; the Greeks were known to bury damaged statuary...
Morning is about freshness, birth, starting new. Aurora, goddess of dawn, advances from a distant pearl-pink horizon, and a newborn baby lies squirming on a carpet of grass and flowers. In a flood of crystalline blue light, lilies open in the sky to release their freight of music-making putti. "When I turn to flowers and trees," Runge once wrote, "it becomes clearer to me how in each plant is contained a certain human spirit, idea or feeling, and it is very clear to me that it must have originated in Paradise." -Robert Hughes