Word: pantheonic
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Slowly she paced around a fire blazing upon the bank of the esteemed Godavari River, at Gangapur, India. Priests invoked in her behalf the whole pantheon of Hindu deities. At the conclusion of the ceremony she approached the potent High Priest Jagadgur Shankarcharva, touched his feet, received his blessing, and walked away no longer Nancy Ann Miller but the Hindu Maiden Devi Sharmista...
...Pantheon de la Guerre in Paris there was an operation a month ago. A pair of silver shears, now glorified as relics, cut down the world's largest painting on canvas-a cyclorama, 400 feet long, at which tourists have stared for eight years. On it is a pictorial history of the World War- cannon and weeping mothers in black, plunging airplanes and statesmen-a gigantic optical illusion as seen from the centre of the circular temple. Parts of it are painfully real. There are 6,000 figures, the creations of 22 artists, whose skill is photographic rather than...
...years Rome must appear as a marvel to all the people of the world?vast, ordered and powerful as it was in the time of the First Empire of Augustus. You will make open squares around the Augusteo Amphitheatre, around the ancient Marcello Theatre, around the Capitol, around the Pantheon. Everything that has been built around these monuments during the centuries of decadence must disappear. Within five years the Pantheon must be visible from the Piazza Colonna through a wide avenue...
King Vittorio Emanuele and Queen Mother Margherita, widow of the murdered King, attended mass near the tomb of King Umberto in the Pantheon. Signor Cremonesi, Royal Commissioner of Rome, sent telegrams on behalf of the citizens to the King and Queen Mother, and issued a proclamation to the people, as a commemoration document, deploring the crime that ended King Umberto's life...
LUCIFER - George Santayana - Dunster House ($15.00). For the richest shelves of bookstores, for the glossiest library tables, for the nicest eyes and the longest thin fingers, some artisans in papers and inks and types have redecorated an older poet's younger pantheon. When the veils are drawn, there is crimson chiseling. When the angels speak, their celestial words are of the blue of Heaven. The rarified text - five acts of lofty verse - is for high thinkers, telling the tragedy of imperious Lucifer, who sought to sustain his soul by tugging at his spiritual bootstraps...