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...version, King Dasa-ratha is an old lecher who ministers to his harem more assiduously than to his people, and totters on his throne from lack of sleep. Venal flunkeys catch the king's ear, and tell him that his son Rama plans to kill him. Under a pious pretext, the old man banishes Rama from his kingdom for 14 years. Into exile with Rama go his dutiful wife Sita and his loyal brother...
...some who muse On the allegory Affect to find It a pious joke; To the beggar what use, For Martin what glory In deed half-kind And part of a cloak...
...pious Hindus, a solar eclipse is caused by a demon named Rahu who is only a severed head. He hates the sun because it was instrumental in getting his body removed; so every now and then he tries to swallow...
...Like many an other supposedly invulnerable fellow, he was exposed, when in the buff, as more of a maudlin breast-beater than a Front Page chesty. Swept up by the Chicago literary movement just before World War I, he tried to temper his fondness for cadavers with pious offerings at the shrine of The Little Review. In its inner circle a young man might hear anything from a first reading of Sandburg's Chicago to Maxwell Bodenheim's murmuring cottony love messages into the rapt ears of plump bluestockings ("Your face is an incense bowl from which...
...widely prevalent in Europe's churches; just as such theology and leadership as that of Dr. Van Dusen [April 19] appear to express and help to account for the worldly and consequent growing vitality-among Protestant churches in the U.S. There is nothing notably new, save, perhaps, the pious expression of it, in the feeling of frustration, not to say inferiority, in the face of current American ascendency which leads Earth, like many Europeans, to equate Communist with U.S. materialism and to advocate a Christian entente with Communism...