Word: medusa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault's most famous canvas, The Raft of the Medusa,* was painted in 1819, four years after Waterloo. Géricault belonged to the swank Jockey Club and the swank Bourbon Musketeers instead of to the army of Napoleon. But among 23 of his pictures exhibited last week were several such as The Three Trumpeters (see cut), which showed the gift for color and the clangorous Romantic imagination which made Delacroix mourn his early death: "Poor Géricault, I will think of you very often. I imagine that your...
...later the official report to Congress by the Democratic National Committee revealed the names of several corporations with expensive bookish tastes -most of them also sellers of the kind of goods of which the Government buys quantities: Bethlehem Steel Co. (20 copies); Automatic Voting Machine Corp. (12); Monolith and Medusa Portland Cement Companies. Hammermill Paper Co. (10 each); California Portland Cement Co., Deere & Co. (8 each); The Carborundum Co., Inland Steel Co., Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp. (4 each). Other bibliophiles: Walter P. Chrysler (50 copies), Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America, International Association of Machinists, American...
...Berlin a richly-illustrated, 163-page book entitled Studien zur Gorgo ("Studies of the Gorgon"). The exiled Kaiser began Gorgon research in 1911 after visiting the ancient Doric temple on the island of Corfu said to have been built in honor of the three Greek Gorgons (Stheno, Euryale, Medusa), mythological snaky-haired sisters whose terrifying looks turned beholders into stone...
Italy. When Perseus, son of Danae and great Zeus, was grown to manhood, the lustful king of Seriphus, who coveted his mother and would be rid of the son, sent him off to bring back the head of the Gorgon Medusa whose glance turned men to stone. With winged sandals given by the Nymphs, the helmet of Hades which made him invisible, and the sword of Hermes, Perseus watched Medusa's reflection in Athena's shield, cut off the head, returned to Seriphus to rescue his mother by exposing the petrifying head to the eyes of the king...
Before the reporter had finished asking Pete if he had any tattoos himself, the talented artist had ripped aside his ragged shirt and lo. and behold! a huge squirming serpent slithered slowly across his heaving chest. "His name Medusa", proudly explained 'Pete. "The grand master, he done that. It take him two days. He say it do best masterpiece he ever...