Word: pantheonic
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...Chinese Communist Party. Red big shots wrote long, tortuous articles for the occasion. A new opera, the theme of which was the Communists' famed "long march," opened at the Peking People's Art Theater. At a rally in Peking, spotlights lit up giant portraits of the Red pantheon, including Mao Tse-tung, Liu Shao-chi, Chou Enlai, Chu Teh, Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin. Said Liu: "Our party is the greatest, most glorious and most consistently correct party in the history of China. As Comrade Mao has said, 'The victory we have so far achieved is only...
...first-rate novels (Man's Fate, Man's Hope) and an equally fine study of art history. Splendidly illustrated translations of the first two volumes of his Psychology of Art were published in the U.S. in 1949. Last week came Volume 3, The Twilight of the Absolute (Pantheon...
AMERICA BEGINS (438 pp.)-Edited by Richard M. Dorson-Pantheon...
...Brazil, some misguided people vow that it increases sexual prowess, others are under the delusion that it makes a man impotent. In Haiti, they say it is the only thing that will cause Damballah and his wife Ayida Oueddo, a pair of the chief deities of the voodoo pantheon, to put in an appearance at a voodoo session. Chinese bankers have taken to serving it instead of tea, and Italian aristocrats offer it to their guests instead of champagne. Graceful gondolas carry it along the narrow canals of Venice, and sturdy, resigned burros tote it into the dusty Mexican hills...
Like Cranach, Titian had taken his pick in the Greek Pantheon, but had added a sumptuousness of his own. His Venus and the Lute Player made the goddess look more human than divine, for his brush managed to suggest the blood beneath the opalescent skin and to impart a warmth that no marble could match. Compared with Titian's, even such latter-day Technicolor Venuses as Lana Turner seemed somewhat anemic...