Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This was a continuation of the little purge, carried on while Mother Russia staged a big purge (TIME, Sept. 2). But within Communist circles it was far bigger news than the recent excommunication of Ruth (My Sister Eileen) McKenney et al. Tough, wide-chested, hard-drinking Bill Dunne, the "Wild Bull from Montana," had come into the Party by way of the I.W.W. He had led striking copper miners in Butte, textile workers in Passaic, coal miners in West Virginia. During the '20s he had plotted with William Z. Foster and Earl Browder to dominate U.S. Communists. In nearly...
...hate, modern art, gets both barrels: "You don't need a guide to explain Sargent's portrait of Marquand or Whistler's Mother. . . . But what do you need beginning with Manet's Olympia through Nude Descending the Staircase ... to the present-day Portrait of a Vacuum Cleaner having its Tonsils removed or Salad Bowl full of Left Ears? I feel that you need the Yale Bowl to be sick...
Fortnight ago, as it must even to cats, death came to Minnie Esso in her 16th year, her 14th as an Esso employe. Her successor, named last week: Son Esso Junior, aged three months. First day on the job, Esso Junior proved that he could fill his mother's boots. He killed a large...
...Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). Twentieth Century composers; including Ravel's Mother Goose and Elgar's Introduction and Allegro for strings; Wilfred Pelletier, guest conductor...
Jesus' real mission, explains Agabus-Graves, was to "destroy the power of the Female"-i.e., of Jehovah's predecessor, rival and unacknowledged consort, the Great Mother Goddess or Triple Moon Goddess, known in the Eastern Mediterranean lands by various names, including Hecate and Astarte. She had ruled Canaan before the Israelites came; her worship included ritual prostitution, and Jesus' mother Miriam (Mary in the English Scriptures) had actually been born, so the High Priest said, "under the old dispensation," as a result of a dreamlike unmarital incident in a garden during the Feast of Tabernacles. Jesus...