Word: pantheon
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When Pandora opened the box and loosed upon mankind all the evil gifts of the malevolent Greek pantheon, by Hesiod's account "Hope was the only spirit that stayed there . . . and could not fly forth." According to Kansas' famed Psychiatrist Karl Menninger, hope has stayed there, cowering and crouching, too much of the time from Hesiod's day until now. To this fact, as much as to the evils of "selfishness, vengefulness, hate, greed, cruelty, destructiveness and even self-destructiveness," which Pandora released, Dr. Menninger lays many of mankind's troubles...
FLOWER SHADOWS BEHIND THE CURTAIN (432 pp.)-Translated from the Chinese by Franz Kuhn and from the German by Vladimir Kean-Pantheon...
...World War II), ever-moving population, Rome's traffic planners route fleets of Fiats and thundering herds of motor scooters through narrow alleys designed for carriages and litters. Whole areas of Rome have become all but impossible to reach by car; so congested is the area around the Pantheon that many cab drivers flatly refuse to take passengers there...
...Olmecs were apparently inventive and cultivated people. They produced carved stone sarcophagi, colonnades of prismatic basalt, colossal basalt heads weighing up to 15 tons. Later Indians made no attempt to emulate these massive achievements. But Olmec stone bas-reliefs, ceramics and carved jades remained an influence, and the Olmec pantheon of jaguar gods appears to have lived on in different forms...
Back in 1923 Kiesler proposed the first actual shell house in history. The Pantheon in Rome is half a shell. Kiesler modeled a true shell, an egglike construction balanced on stilts and tensile all around-not just at the top and sides. Last year, 35 years after he proposed it, Kiesler was commissioned by Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art to carry out his still-revolutionary idea in model form. He secluded himself in his Greenwich Village loft, spent month after month brooding, sketching, constructing. The end result is bound to surprise even those who know him. Anchored...