Word: goddess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...than they liked the last one. His mangled women and monsters of the war years had vanished like a nightmare. The nine new paintings were bright still lifes done with a comic strip's economy of line and color, and airy pastoral scenes with pipe-playing centaurs, a goddess and dancing goats. Picasso had painted his new pictures on the scene, behind locked doors (TIME, Jan. 13). The castle's old guide, Pierre, used to tell tourists that there was "a crazy artist" in the studio, but now Pierre spends his evenings reading up on Picasso...
Bihar villagers remembered a pre-Hindu superstition that the gods require human sacrifice whenever any major building is under construction. The faith of the Thugs, worshipers of Kali, Goddess of Destruction, who thought their goddess was the more pleased the more people they strangled in her name, had never quite died out. In the last 30 years about a dozen people have been sentenced in Bihar, Bengal and Madras on charges of offering human sacrifices...
...nerve center of U.S. agricultural economics is the vast, modern Chicago Board of Trade Building. Its massive 41 floors loom as large as agriculture does in the U.S. economy. Ceres, goddess of grain, stands pre-eminent at the very top of the building. In the grain pits below, more grain is bought & sold than anywhere else in the world, sometimes months before it is even grown. Last week a TIME correspondent paid a visit to Ceres' slightly mad court...
...alternation, to make a necklace handsome enough for a 5th Century princess. Ivory saints beckoned from panels small enough to put in a wallet. Rams and lions from ancient Antioch displayed their gold and silver manes in 5th Century mosaics. There was a polished statuette of Astarte, the pagan goddess of fertility, whose memory died hard among the Christian farmers of Northern Syria. Bronze oil lamps, surmounted by leaping lions and the hooked beaks of griffins, stood dry and wickless under glass. Once the lamps had flickered, fiercely golden, on the night-tables of dying bishops and children afraid...
When 30 Japanese police tried to arrest her, they were met by a one-man banzai charge by 380-pound Futubayama, until recently Sumo wrestling* champion of Japan. Once subdued (it took 30 minutes), Futubayama renounced the goddess. Jiko-san was judged a religious paranoiac, and released. But the continuing popularity of her brand of paranoia was affirmed when the unofficial "New Masses Party" loosed two assassins on Labor Leader Katsumi Kikunani, whose Tokyo unionists were preparing a general strike...