Word: virginal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Some scholars contend, for example, that the Virgin Mary incorporates attributes of Athena, Artemis, Aphrodite and Persephone. Even more to the point, early Christians invented a St. Hermes...
...When they find out you are a clergyman, they don't say, 'How can you believe this nonsense about virgin birth and physical resurrection?' They ask questions like 'How did you come to believe?' 'How is belief possible?' 'What does...
...into a kind of "sticky glue" that prevented some of the cometary dust and gas from boiling off. University of Arizona Astronomer Elizabeth Roemer, for one, found this theory improbable. Comets, she explained, are too gaseous and fragile to develop such a crust. Other astronomers suggested that Kohoutek, a "virgin" comet making its first approach to the inner part of the solar system and never before exposed to the warmth of the sun, had flared up briefly when its more volatile materials boiled off. It was that early glow, observed when the comet was still as far away as Jupiter...
...inhabitant of the Deer Park (as the villa where the royal mistresses lived was called) known as la petite Morfil. Miss Murphy was an Irish girl whom the Pompadour pro cured for her flagging monarch by the utterly rococo device of getting Boucher to paint her as the Virgin Mary in a decoration for one of the royal chapels. She is the ancestor of all the midinettes and grisettes and rotund milkmaids that Renoir was to paint a century later...
...Virgin Spring. 1960. Academy Award-winning Bergman film centers of violent rape-murder in medieval Sweet Fine acting by Max von Sydow...