Word: nether
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...remembers a scene at home in Avila: "The broad valley remains visible with its checkerboard of ploughed fields and straggling poplars lining the straight roads, or clustered along the shallow pools by the river; and at night, in the not too distant mountains, the shepherds' fires twinkle like nether stars...
Thus Aldous Huxley introduces The Complete Etchings of Goya (Crown; $3.50), the first inclusive collection in book form. The new Goya reproduces, mostly in their original size, the 268 brutal, sometimes nether-worldly scenes which Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828) etched in the latter years of his life when deafness and ill health had embittered him and he was capping his prodigious career as court painter with a furious moral summation of all he had seen. Samples: a mule, Goya's symbol of pride of lineage, fondling the genealogy of his mulish ancestors; a rapist...
...attacking Italy, he argues, the Allies would force the Axis in Europe to fight on two fronts; by capturing Italy, the Allies would control the Mediterranean and Africa, open the back door to the center of Germany, catch Hitler "between the upper and nether millstones of British-and Italian-based American sea power." The United Nations could then move on Japan with land-based armies through Russia and China...
When that hot noonday came to The Netherlands East Indies last week, Netherlands. British and U.S. officialdom held its breath. Just previously Economics Minister van Mook had given the Japanese a ten-page answer to their demands. It was said to state in effect that The Nether lands East Indies would willingly continue trade relations with Japan on the basis of the annual average trade for the past five years. By inference this meant Japan would not get increased war materials either to use itself or to send to its Axis partners...
This "oldest written literature of significant quantity ever uncovered" consists of epics, myths, hymns, proverbs. Before the Society, Kramer read a poem, "Inanna's Descent to the Nether World," oldest known version of the universally significant myth of a descent into Hades. This myth, hitherto thought to be Semitic in origin, was taken over by all succeeding civilizations from the Assyrian to the Christian. Still more important, Kramer hopes, will be his translation of Sumerian "forerunners of the ancient myths concerned with the dying god and his resurrection, a group ... of basic significance for a scientific approach...