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...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...
...total sales of $4,141,600 for 136 works were record prices set for paintings by the Impressionist Edouard Manet and the post-Impressionist Paul Gauguin. Manet's 1866 portrait of a pipe-puffing man, The Smoker, brought $450,000. Gauguin's 1893 scene of a moon-goddess idol, Hma Marum, fetched $275,000 The highest price knocked down by a living artist was $78,000, for a 1949 marriage fantasy by Marc Chagall (TIME cover, July...