Word: minerva
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Diana that apparently flourished for more than a thousand years near ancient Vravron, a fertile place on the east coast of Attica about 24 miles east of Athens. Herodotus mentioned the temple. So did Aristophanes, who hinted at orgies there. In Euripides' play Iphigenia in Tauris, the goddess Minerva tells Iphigenia and Orestes to take the statue of Diana that they had snatched from a temple in Tauris on the Black Sea and set it up at Vravron...
Instead of the trite sobriquet Explorer, the U.S. moon should have been dubbed Minerva ; for, like the goddess of old, it too sprang from Jupiter's head...
...your pretty, little, curious, ingenious men," wrote John Adams), inventor of an improved method of quilling the harpsichord, signer of the Declaration of Independence, and the first native American composer. He wrote several English-flavored songs, a quantity of church music and an "oratorial entertainment" entitled The Temple of Minerva, which his scattered fans claim as the first American opera. His most ambitious work was Seven Songs, dedicated to his old friend George Washington, who confessed that "I can neither sing one of the songs, nor raise a single note on any instrument to convince the unbelieving." Composer Hopkinson...
Died. Dr. Alfred Einstein Cohn, 78, heart specialist who introduced the electrocardiogram to the U.S. (1910), member of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1920-44), and noted essayist (Minerva's Progress); after long illness; in New Milford, Conn...
...initiation rites begin in a small Mississippi River town in the '30s, with several of the stories pivoting around two youngsters named Jason and Ira Garrett. In Chip Canary, Jason tangles with the town queer woman, Elizabeth Minerva Stretch. She is a monstrous frump, always trundling a baby carriage full of junk and dubbed-for some shadowy peccadillo of the past-"Chip Canary." In a moment of adolescent bravado Jason yells out this taboo nickname, then breaks and runs. That night, snug in bed, Jason smiles as he hears his father say to his mother...