Word: mithraic
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...advent of Spring again reminds us of the unfortunate scheduling of weekday parietal hours. While our natural inclinations would send us down to the playing fields to help the House athletic teams or out into the sun for various Mithraic rites, we are forced to entertain lady guests in our rooms during daylight hours...
...range of black, gray and white, its noble struggle with monumental form and the strange, universalizing archaism (there are no bombs or guns, only a broken sword; the most modern image in the painting is an electric light, which is also the most ancient, for it becomes a pitiless Mithraic sun) belong more to the world of the Greek pediment and the Roman battle sarcophagus than to that of the Kondor Division, whose bombs demolished Guernica. But it remains a passionate and epic work, and it was Picasso's sole politically effective gesture. The best comment on Picasso...
...advent of Spring again reminds us of the unfortunate scheduling of weekday parietal hours. While our natural inclinations would send us down to the playing fields to help the House athletic teams or out into the sun for various Mithraic rites, we are forced to entertain lady guests in our rooms during daylight hours...
...explains the eclectic Mr. Freed, "the only basic AMERICAN MUSICAL HERITAGE we can call our own." Other scholars have sought to trace its growth from early Mithraic fertility rites--some claim that Tonganese natives were the first to Rock n Roll...
...Italy, a perfect cavern-chapel to Mithras, Persian god of light, was found in Santa Maria di Capua. Some 100 other Mithraic shrines had been known in Italy, but none so complete as this. Frescos presented Mithras as a strong youth, in brilliant red tunic with green cuffs and gold fringe, sacrificing a white bull with red nostrils beneath a blue, star-studded...
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