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Between the fury of Earl Browder's cohorts claiming "martyrdom," and the sounds of rejoicing at his conviction, the American public has little chance of deciding sanely whether reaction or justice prevailed. The Goddess of emotion, not law, holds the scales. Too many liberal minds can be swayed by nightmares of a coming purge. Too many conservatives can ease their conscience in the pure and American conduct of the trial. But the error is not in the conviction but in the charge. The real question is whether passport violation should have been pressed in the first place...
Athens, the goddess of justice, finally smiled yesterday on long suffering Robert (Apple) Orchard...
Meanwhile mothers with babes, laborers in workless working clothes who bought stamps last week, leered at the figure of the Goddess of Plenty printed on them, promptly dubbed her "Surplus...
...Alma Mater, the great American goddess-flatulent old bawd...
From Homer on, hardly a serious poet has been without a guardian conscience which he called his Muse. To the Greek poets, the Muses were goddesses who led a life apart from the bullheaded and goatish gods but were, like them, bland absentees. After paganism, when Christianity started trying to hatch out a more personal and better world, the Muse turned from goddess to angel-like Dante's Beatrice, who spoke to him from heaven. But with the Renaissance, poets found their angels nearer home and less angelic: in Elizabethan times, on the streets and in the Court...