Word: prometheus
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ANGERED by Prometheus' theft of - fire from Mount Olympus. Jupiter sent the first woman. Pandora, to earth. Then he sent Pandora a mysterious box, calculating (rightly) that Pandora's feminine curiosity would force her to peep inside. She did. and released all the sorrows that afflict humanity. See HEMISPHERE, Legacy of Woes...
...went to Searsport, Me. to get a fine igth century carved eagle, picked up the oldest painting in the show -a 1670 portrait of a two-year-old girl done with quasi-medieval flatness-from the Adams Museum in Quincy, Mass. From the Catskill (N.Y.) Public Library came a Prometheus Bound by pioneer U.S. Landscape Artist Thomas Cole; from Canajoharie, N.Y. a sensitive Italian Head by John Singer Sargent; and from Arizona State University, John James Audubon's Osprey and the Otter and the Salmon...
...capture the excitement, diversity and oddity of U.S. inventiveness for this week's cover story on new products (see BUSINESS, Prometheus Unbound). Cover Artist Boris Artzybasheff stretched his easel, produced TIME'S second gatefold cover (the first a Christmas creche on Dec. 28, 1959). Artzy scorned a new machine that paints for the artist, used an old-fashioned good right hand to personify these new products...
...city's huge Hibiya Park in search of a scheduled Zenga-kuren meeting. Suddenly he found himself surrounded by students in red horns and white robes. As it turned out, the weird assemblage was a Tokyo University Greek tragedy club earnestly rehearsing for an upcoming performance of Prometheus; the Zengakuren students, plotting a more contemporary tragedy, were in the next clearing. To separate the myth from the reality in last week's chain of events was the task of Campbell and other TIME staffers throughout the world. With President Eisenhower on his final scheduled trip in office...
...dreaded mysticism (although fascinated by it) as endangering the light of reason-a poor light, nearly always smoking, and often stinking, but yet all we have to let us go forward a few feet in a century." ¶I "Ahab [of Moby Dick] is only a rebel, not a Prometheus but rather like many a hero of early German sagas . . . capable of bursting asunder out of rage, and of playing the Samson unprovoked." ¶ "The German [scholar] insists, like so many children with their toys and first watches, on smashing the subject he is treating to see how it works...