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...text is the second Idyll, one of literature's great love poems, by 3rd century B.C. Greek Poet Theocritus. The piece divides into four moods, as the forsaken girl Simaitha gathers magic spells, then tells the moon goddess how she met her lover, goes on to tell how she became his mistress, and finally explains his desertion and her determination to win him back. Sessions scarcely lets the soprano come up for air. At Louisville, Oklahoma-born Singer Audrey Nossaman needed all her excellent technique-and her strength -for some 40 minutes of music...
Goading a Goddess...
...always ready to slobber ecstatically over anything French? Take, for example, your Dec. 5 article on the new Citroen, which can only laughingly be referred to as an automobile. I have lived in France for two years and have been here constantly since the duckbilled (and humpbacked, tuck-tailed) "Goddess" appeared. "A million Frenchmen can't be wrong," you say? Man, if that many jokers invested in the old six-place family hearse, that represents a heap of idiocy-which will only be exceeded if a million more undiscerning souls buy the 1956-style Flying Sausage...
...water, and as he lifted it, salt water dropped from the point and solidified, to form the first of the islands of Japan. Izanagi and Izanami descended to the new land, married, and began to people heaven and earth. By washing his left eye, Izanagi produced the Sun Goddess, Amaterasu O-mikami. She took over the rule of heaven and passed earth over to her grandson and his descendants, the Emperors of Japan...
...Priest!" After World War II, by occupation order, shrine Shinto was disestablished. "The sponsorship, support, perpetuation, control and dissemination of Shinto by Japanese . . . will cease immediately," decreed General MacArthur. And on New Year's Day of 1946, the 124th Emperor of Japan, descended from the Sun Goddess, broadcast to his shocked people that his divine ancestry was "mere myth and legend...