Word: goddesses
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JUDY COLLINS looked every bit the goddess Saturday night, as her clear, silky voice lulled the packed Symphony Hall audience into unthinking tranquility...
...Akali Dal Party released the fasting Sant Fateh Singh from his suicide vow. "My pledge has been fulfilled," murmured the Sant, accepting a glass of orange juice from the temple's head priest. And Chandigarh, named after Chandi, the North Indian equivalent of Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, has lived up to its name...
Great Obscurity was a mere By product of a wonderful, computer regulated System of Organization whose construction had been superintended by Pallas, Goddess of Wisdom. She wished especially to favor the Wise Teachers who ruled here. And they, to honour Her, named the System "Crystal." Crystal, because it looked after time-wasting administrative Functions, left the Wise Teachers free to advise scholarly Publications of student Problems. Advising Students was a Problem for the Computer...
...Francisco turned up news of a different sort: announcement of the rediscovery in Turkey of the temple of Aphrodite of Cnidus, which is thought to have been built in the second or third century B.C. One of the most dazzling archaeological finds in years, the temple of the Greek goddess of love was unearthed last summer by an expedition led by a 36-year-old assistant professor at Long Island University who happens to be named Iris C. Love...
...figures chiseled out of Etruscan boulders include a 19-ft.-high elephant crushing a warrior in its trunk, a giant dismembering a man, a goddess with each pubic hair clearly delineated, and a 20-ft. satanic head whose mouth opens into a large chamber. These overwhelming creations are 50 miles north of Rome. It is known only that they were carved between 1555 and 1585 at the command of Duke Pier Francesco Orsini...