Word: priestesses
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...here with you," she shrugs. "I could be somewhere else-with my husband for instance. I hardly know him. So what's the difference?" Because Moreau lifts such roles to an eminence they ill deserve, European directors continue to cast her, in film after film, as the high priestess of contemporary moral collapse. Too bad that a first-rate actress so often has to squeeze her victories out of second-rate scripts...
...British intelligentsia's newest high priestess is Brigid Brophy, and it is easy to see why. She picks only top-chop idols, and her devotional fires resemble a Bessemer converter. Brophy's incisive critical essays have revealed her pantheon: Freud, Shakespeare, Mozart and Jane Austen. To Great God Freud she has already devoted a book, Black Ship to Hell; now the 18th century composer gets his. In Mozart, her scholarship is firm, and the writing is good Brophy, but it is sheer gusto and freshness of thought that make the book a joy to read...
Even Alice Lenshina had grown alarmed at the wave of slaughter provoked by her fanatic followers. So Alice, the plump black matron who can issue her spearsmen "passports to heaven" and turn enemy bullets to water, did what any fugitive, illiterate, resurrected high priestess might be expected to do. She got in touch with her lawyer...
...Loeb they chant ominously through the Vermeule translations so beloved to Gen Ed and, occasionally, when they forget they are in a ritual drama and stop trying to sound like an unearthly shaman or the Delphic priestess, their speech becomes intelligible, and they show us "just how modern the old bard really was." At least I think their interpretation follows certain simple but "classic" lines: Euripides mocks the old religious motifs that Aeschylus so deeply felt, ergo he was an atheist rebelling against the pious establishment. The Loeb production seems to follow this interpretation or, shall I say, to adopt...
Married. Mahalia Jackson, 52, high priestess of Negro gospel songs; and Minters Sigmond Galloway, 47, salesman for a Gary, Ind., building contractor; both for the second time; in Chicago...