Word: goddesses
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...females to enjoy themselves. Maybe she is. For the incredible thing about Rusty Warren is the crowds she draws. She has just left Mr. Kelly's in Chicago, where Greyhound buses arrived every day from assorted plains cities full of jolly, plump, greying matrons dying to see their goddess. Car pools came in from Iowa and far Missouri. "The women are usually 40 to 50 or more, and hefty." she says...
Secret Heart. In trying to prove his thesis that ancient myths embody intuitive wisdom that is only now being proved out, Eliot indulges himself in many a long reach. Aphrodite, goddess of love, was able to renew her virginity simply by bathing in the sea. Now "astrophysicists relate that our life-giving sun renews its virginity also, by dint of a circular chain reaction. Every nucleus of carbon and nitrogen in the sun returns to its pure state once in five million years." This is ingenious rather than convincing, provocative rather than wise. And in his secret heart, Eliot knows...
...seems simultaneously intended as a romantic idyl, a secret thrill for naughty little boys of all ages, a modern myth of the mother goddess. The myth declares itself in symbols too insistent-the child is flatly called by the name of the goddess herself; her lover brings her a weathercock, bird of Apollo, god of light; and at the end an evergreen, tree of Dionysus, god of darkness, stands above his corpse...
...people in Devi (The Goddess) seem almost like temple carvings come to life before Ray's camera. A rich and deeply religious old patriarch dreams that his 17-year-old daughter-in-law (Sharmila Tagore) is an incarnation of a goddess. The girl, eager to please, allows herself to be decked out in flowers and jewels, to be ensconced in an altar outside her father-in-law's house where streams of peasants and holy men come to make obeisance. When a beggar's sick grandson recovers in her presence, the event is hailed as a miracle...
...husband, a proud young student who has embraced Western ideas at college in Calcutta, returns to his father's home to discover that his wife has been deified, and tries to take her away with him. But she wavers: "What if I am a goddess? The child was cured"-and she stays behind. Her little nephew falls ill, and instead of being cared for by a doctor, the child is placed in the arms of the goddess. He dies. When her husband returns once more, determined to take her away, it is too late: she has gone...