Word: serpent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gordeyev tells the tragic story of a morally sensitive, socially conscious young Russian merchant (Georgy Yepifanstev) of the last century who asks himself: "Is a man born only to make money?" In an episode of shuddery weirdness and God-haunted irony, the sanctimonious serpent (Pavel Tarasov) who serves as the hero's guardian, glassily indifferent to the vast icon of Christ that looms behind him, replies: "Eat or be eaten. That is the law of life." Unable to accept such a law, unable to find a better one, unable to love a good woman (Alia Labetskaya), the hero plunges...
Smiling sweetly, the serpent of denial protested that she had never been told that the Congressmen were coming. The Congressmen melted like lard, particularly the one who sidled up close to her royal highness and sniggered: "I came, I saw, I conquered...
THAT curling gold serpent on the background of TIME'S cover this week is the symbol of the American Medical Association and of Aesculapius, the god of medicine. It is not to be confused with the more familiar two coiled snakes that the U.S. Army Medical Corps uses, and which the A.M.A. considers a mistake. Two snakes coiled around a winged staff form the caduceus of the god Mercury, who, aside from being the messenger of the gods, is also god of commerce, the deity of thieves and conductor of the dead to the underworld. The A.M.A. prefers...
...finds himself in what looks like a cooled-off hell. The walls are lined with massive, tortured figures drawn on huge pieces of parchment. A decapitated man holds his head in his hands; an adjoining figure is riven from neck to thigh; a third figure turns slowly into a serpent. These, along with similar drawings on display this week at the University of Southern California, are the sketches for a series of paintings Lebrun is making to illustrate Dante's Inferno-the latest work of an artist whose obsession is the suffering of mankind...
...That's right," said several followers. The rest of the audience hissed. "That," the Muslim leader told them, "is what the serpent did to Eve in the garden...