Word: goddess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Athens, the goddess of justice, finally smiled yesterday on long suffering Robert (Apple) Orchard...
Meanwhile mothers with babes, laborers in workless working clothes who bought stamps last week, leered at the figure of the Goddess of Plenty printed on them, promptly dubbed her "Surplus...
...Alma Mater, the great American goddess-flatulent old bawd...
From Homer on, hardly a serious poet has been without a guardian conscience which he called his Muse. To the Greek poets, the Muses were goddesses who led a life apart from the bullheaded and goatish gods but were, like them, bland absentees. After paganism, when Christianity started trying to hatch out a more personal and better world, the Muse turned from goddess to angel-like Dante's Beatrice, who spoke to him from heaven. But with the Renaissance, poets found their angels nearer home and less angelic: in Elizabethan times, on the streets and in the Court...
...With the goddess, Iris, careening, in on roller skates and a chorus, grotesquely masked in ancient Greek dramatic fashion "trucking" out to the tune of modern Jazz-blues, the 20th century A.D. and the 5th century B.C. join hands as the Harvard Classical Club whips into final shape its presentation of Aristophanes' fantasy. "The Birds" to be given Friday and Saturday evening at 8 o'clock in Sanders Theatre...