Word: zeus
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...seems like love. The obsessiveness about it, the ascendancy that it reaches over your mind, over all other thoughts. Indeed, it reaches a summit over the world itself that seems to turn reality into a vague abstraction. It stares down as if Zeus on top of Olympus, looking with pity upon the swarming miserable creatures who can never understand its true power. It fills you up and up with “thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls...
...argued that his daughter?s rights were infringed when the phrase was included in the pledge at her school each morning. Goodwin reasoned that saying, "we are a nation ?under God? " is equivalent to saying "we are a nation ?under Jesus,? a nation ?under Vishnu,? a nation ?under Zeus? or a nation ?under...
...every individual work of art in “A Studio of Her Own” is remarkable. Of special note is Anna Vaughn Hyatt’s statue, Young Diana, depicting the goddess balanced delicately upon the backs of three large fish, her bow and arrow pointed towards Zeus. Hyatt’s attention to detail is remarkable, and the fish appear so real that they might jump back into the sea. Also moving is Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller’s Bust of a Woman, a partial cast of her Emancipation that now resides in Harriet Tubman Square...
...where surgeons truly get their valuable sense of "feel." Developing teletaction - long-distance feel - has proven to be a slow process, with current prototypes years away from functioning at a useful level. But surgeons are intrigued by the ability of da Vinci and its closest competitor, Computer Motion's Zeus, to spread knowledge. An expert surgeon could be sitting in his office, watching over the shoulder of a novice doctor 1,000 km or more away. "This is a way of putting someone with more experience into the operating room," says Gardiner. A surgeon could even be in several places...
...credit, Tresnjak’s production does make a nod to the tragic implications of the tale for the young lovers at its center. Informed by Zeus of his nefarious doings and of Alcmena’s pregnancy with a child named Hercules, the couple end the play bewildered and dejected. But given the shortcomings of the preceding two hours, this ending doesn’t serve as a contrast to Molière’s comedic treatment of the subject matter. Instead, it embodies the audience’s reaction all along...