Word: priestess
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sartre and de Beauvoir decided that life had no purpose, no meaning except what each man could find for himself in his own existence. To the young, hungry intellectuals of a shamed and broken country, existentialism seemed a revelation. Overnight Sartre became its high priest, Simone its No. 1 priestess...
Died. Josephine M. Culbertson, 57, high priestess of contract bridge, popularizer with her late former husband, Ely Culbertson (TIME, Jan. 9), of his famed Culbertson System; in Manhattan...
...priestess spoke. I heard one sound...
...Though the titles Bishopess, Priestess and Deaconess are sometimes found in the early Church, these referred to the title of the husbands, as modern German wives may be called Frau Doktor or Frau Professor...
...Missionary Society-hundreds of wide-awake young girls who live in tiny pavilions in the Garden of Love and hold intimate midnight conversations behind closed curtains with prospective converts. It becomes increasingly clear that the worship of Astarte (Hollywood version) is the direct ancestor of present-day burlesque: High Priestess Lana, wearing as few beads as the Production Code, will permit, promenades along a runway above her audience, using every classic nuance of the stripteaser's hesitation walk while, as comedy relief, High Priest Louis Calhern lurches onstage in a funny hat and baggy costume, just like an oldtime...