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...decorate the 25 rooms of the hunting lodge, Rubens picked most of his themes from Ovid's Metamorphoses, including the famed story of the weaving match between Pallas Athena and Arachne. Bested in the contest, the goddess Athena was doubly angry because mortal Arachne dared to weave scenes of the scandalous loves of the gods (Rubens' sketch shows a scene from the Rape of Europa). Athena ripped the design to shreds, turned on Arachne, who was trying to hang herself in despair, and metamorphosed her into a spider (thus giving spiders their zoological classification: Arachnida...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Picture in the Picture | 9/8/1958 | See Source »

...Goddess. Playwright Paddy Chayefsky and Actress Kim Stanley delivering a roaring diatribe against the Bitch Goddess, Success, at a pace that is sometimes slow, but in a tone that is marvelously Swift (TIME, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Sep. 8, 1958 | 9/8/1958 | See Source »

...Goddess. Playwright Paddy Chayefsky and Actress Kim Stanley delivering a roaring diatribe against the Bitch Goddess, Success, at a pace that is sometimes slow, but in a tone that is marvelously Swift (TIME, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Aug. 25, 1958 | 8/25/1958 | See Source »

...Goddess. Playwright Paddy Chayefsky and Actress Kim Stanley delivering a roaring diatribe against the Bitch Goddess, Success, at a pace that is sometimes slow, but in a tone that is marvelously Swift (TIME, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Aug. 18, 1958 | 8/18/1958 | See Source »

...analyzing the social and economic background of English education, Halsey observed that "productivity is the leading deity of industrial society," and that "the goddess requires increasingly great sacrifice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Halsey Charges English Colleges Form Hierarchy | 8/14/1958 | See Source »

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