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Gouverneur Morris, author (The Pagan's Progress, The Penalty, The Footprint & Other Stories), became president of the Monterey (Calif.) Bank...
...first tableau is called by Stravinsky " The Adoration of the Earth." The tableau is " The Sacrifice," for to primitive custom a virgin be sacrificed before new birth is possible. A pagan prelude introduces it and the young girls encircle, glorify the one. Ancestors are invoked who around her as she starts the propitiatory dance. Fearfully, madly she moves to crazy cross-grained rhythms, falls dead finally across a human pyre built hastily that her body may not touch the sacred soil...
Live and Learn. Presented by Michael Kallesser-who wrote One Man's Woman, Trial Marriage, Marriage on Approval- Live and Learn is a thin little wisp of domestic dramaturgy. If Frederick Manning ("a vagabond and a plunger") had not come to dine with Harold ("who has a pagan love for movement and color") and Mabel Fuller, along with Annette Roberts ("a gold digger on a legal holiday"), there would have been no elderberry wine. Had it not been for the elderberry wine, Harold would not have been drunk, Annette more drunk. Nor would Mabel have left home and Frederick...
...Mother India." The pagan of so many Christlike virtues is not however a Christian. His followers have gone to the extraordinary length of setting up their country as their goddess. She, the actual land and map of India, is frequently represented today by paintings which show the goddess superimposed upon the map, her head always depicted among the Himalayan Mountains, her arms stretched out to embrace the east and west extremities of the map, her feet always close together resting upon Cape Comorin...
...victim of whimsy who also was chained and bound by an irate Jove. Man was appreciative, and remains so even to this day. The Dartmouth Freshmen are, for some reason or other, burning little green caps on the campus. It seems rather heathenish to continue to sacrifice to a pagan deity, but, after all it may be rather nice. At any rate, youth, consistent with ancient Greek precedent, does not fail to carry on the torch...