Word: godse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Footless Gods. In Luxor, Egypt, archeologists from the University of Chicago are patiently pecking away at mud plaster on the interior walls of the temple of Rameses III. They have been at it for years, for the temple contains Egyptian bas-reliefs religiously preserved. When Egypt was Christianized, the...
On stage, the beefy Wagnerian gods of Gotterdämmerung snorted and bellowed in their Valhalla. In the wings, a huge Siegfried, mounted on a ladder, sagged his 230 Ibs. down onto waiting shoulders to be borne on stage. "I'm getting too fat for this," grumbled hefty Heldentenor...
Though no one in the red plush seats out front knew it, there was also hammering, hurrying and rehearsing going on all over the block-square Metropolitan Opera House. High above Valhalla, craning for an occasional amused glance at the tiny gods on stage below, painters swashed away at new...
Quack or genius, Roerich led a busy life that brushed against Eternal Krishna the Regenerator-and the ferrets of the U.S. Bureau of Internal Revenue; against dreamy Henry Wallace in Washington-and the 363 local gods of the Punjab's Kulu Valley. On Manhattan's Riverside Drive his...
Modern man was challenged to choose between the traditions of a 2,000-year-old Christian civilization and the new totalitarian systems which, in the name of social progress, contended for the allegiance of man's secular mind. The promise of the new ideas was as old as that...