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...form which is beauty . . ./ Your solemn contralto voice is the spiritual song of the beloved." So wrote Senegal's Poet-President Leopold Senghor. A beautiful Ghanaian playwright and teacher, Effua Sutherland, recently tried to describe another aspect of the African woman's traditional role. "She is a goddess because she founds society. Her breasts are more of a motherly symbol than a sexual one. She is the power behind man." Mrs. Sutherland carefully recited the words of English Explorer Mary Kingsley, who once wrote: "The old woman you may see crouching behind the chief, or whom...
...shrine, a blood-red structure, cost $444,000. Contributors included Kamiya, all Toyota dealers in Japan and the Esso Standard Oil Co. (of Japan), whose American president is a friend of Kamiya's. The centerpiece of the temple is a statue of Kwannon, the Buddhist goddess of mercy. At the dedication, Kamiya prayed that "the infinite compassion of Kwannon will protect the automobile from disasters...
...better than its detractors are saying. Like Novelist Frame, he too seems more concerned with what will be than what has been. Certainly, his plot is stock Brave New World. Julian, the boss of a sinister superorganization known only as "the firm," orders up a sex-goddess robot modeled after a dead movie star, lolanthe, whom he once loved. Due to circumstances that occurred in another time and another place, Julian is a eunuch, empty of everything but the desire for desire-what Durrell calls "the enormous cupidity of impotence." Once constructed, lolanthe II defeats him. With her warm nylon...
Anthony Burgess, a writer of great wit and erudition, once dared to put the goddess of love in a soggy English garden and between damp English sheets. Only a writer as talented as Burgess could have succeeded in such an unpromising enterprise...
Sentimentality in Reverse. "The bitch-goddess, success" was a phrase coined by William James. What Mary Orr, who penned the original story, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, who scripted the film, and Betty Comden and Adolph Green, who wrote the book for Applause, have done is to reverse James and produce a clever little parable on the success goddess-bitchiness. It may be clever, but it is far from valid. Cynicism is sentimentality in reverse and equally untrue. Of all places, the theater, with its intense critical scrutiny, verifies the copybook maxim that success must be earned and that only merit will...