Word: myrrha
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...patience for his playful daughter ("Take it inside!" he barks) until he accidentally turns her into a solid-gold accessory. Phaeton, sporting sunglasses and yellow swimming trunks, relaxes on a raft as he confides to a therapist his troubled relationship with his father, who happens to be the Sun. Myrrha, a girl so infected by the goddess of love that she commits incest with her father, gets her comeuppance by literally melting away--her body sinking out of sight, into the pool of water that takes up most of the stage...
Brown's Sardanapalus and Myrrha (opposite) sold for virtually the cost of its frame...
...guide to happiness . . . our father, our leader, our light, our food, our redemption, our way, our truth, our life." Fra Dominici exhorted the young monks: "As the years of tender youth flow by, the soft wax may take on any form. Stamp on it the impress not of Narcissus, Myrrha, Phaedra or Ganymede, but of the crucified Christ and of the saints." It was to this effort that Fra Angelico, for whom the goal both of life and art was "the contemplation and realization of Beauty," devoted the rest of his life...
...Louis Allard, instructor in French, will give the second of a series of five readings from French writers in Emerson J this evening at 8 o'clock. Two selections will be read, the first a story, by J. Lemsltre, entitled "Myrrha," and the second another story by Ludovie Halevy, entitled "Un grand Mariage." The reading will be open to the public...
...READINGS FROM FRENCH WRITERS. II. "Myrrha" and "Un grand Mariage." Mr. Louis Allard. Emerson...