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...audience of approximately 75 applauded for a full minute after Worth's rendition of Io, who was raped in a pasture by Zeus...

Author: By Elie G. Kaunfer, | Title: Worth Reads, Lectures to 75 | 11/6/1991 | See Source »

...become twisted at times, my personality has split and I now demand that people call me Zeus. Yes, that's right. I came to Harvard thinking that I would grow up to become some sort of biologist, and instead, I have emerged as chief deity of the Greek pantheon, all because of my twisted desire to wreak vengeance on the vermin that feast on me, my friends and my food (in the case of the mice...

Author: By Jonathan A. Bresman, | Title: A Delicate Ecosystem | 10/22/1991 | See Source »

Jonathan A. Bresman '95 and his evil twin, Zeus, are planning to shower every morning in Mass Hall...

Author: By Jonathan A. Bresman, | Title: A Delicate Ecosystem | 10/22/1991 | See Source »

...conform to modern conventions of beauty but excited Titian's contemporaries to rapture. There too Titian embodied the assumptions of his time, place and class. What terser image of sociosexual politics in 16th century Venice could one ask for than Titian's Danae, princess of Argos, seduced by Zeus in the form of a rainburst of gold coins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: An Appetite for Human Character | 9/17/1990 | See Source »

What elsewhere one sees only in travel brochures, one finds in Thailand daily. It often seems, in fact, as if ancient gods -- Bacchus, Neptune, Zeus and Venus -- conspired to make the land a composite of holidaymakers' fantasies. Here is a never-never land built on solid ground; a fairy-tale monarchy ruled by a Renaissance King and his classically beautiful Queen; an orchid-scented garden of scintillant temples, lush jungles, palmy white beaches and a capital built along tree-shaded canals; and a gentle Buddhist retreat filled with smiling, gracious people who make "tourist industry" sound like a contradiction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: The Smiling Lures Of Thailand | 10/17/1988 | See Source »

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