Word: goddess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, police turned up a middle-aged "sun goddess," 45-year-old Yoshika Nagaoka. During the war she had counseled many Japanese generals; now, as "Jiko-san" (Divine Light), she got financial support from Japanese aristocrats and militarists, averaged $16,000 a month in contributions. Over her temple in Kanazawa, Jiko-san flew the red "meatball" flag of Imperial Japan; to her followers she restated the basic State Shinto principles of hakko ichi-u-the whole world under Japan's Emperor. Jiko-san had included General Douglas MacArthur and Generalissimo Joseph Stalin in her cabinet of lesser deities...
...canvases have been more or less in the same idiom-the expression of murder and barbarism, [but] at Antibes Picasso has closed the infernal cycle of Guernica. Luminous Mediterranean skies replace the black sun of Spain at war. Centaurs play pipes and an inspired woman, a sort of Goddess of Joy, dances in the company of little goats. . . . The message he sends from Antibes is one of hope and grandeur...
...woman had other quests. In the U.S. she scrabbled for dwelling space, for bread (in the spring) for meat (in the fall) and for sugar (at year's end). In China's Hunan Province she sought any food at all (including a whitish clay called, pathetically, "Goddess of Mercy"), but she did not find enough, and thousands starved while relief distribution was immobilized by red tape. In Germany she sought cigarets; in Russia, shoes; in Britain, sheets. She learned (what she had long suspected) that privation marched with the victorious armies as well as with the vanquished...
...impractical to install traffic lights on Massachusetts Avenue in the vicinity of Widener, an underpass should be constructed somewhere between Plympton and Holyoke Streets. This move, plus a stricter enforcement of traffic regulations by the ubiquitous blue-coats are years overdue. Further delay would show gross ingratitude to the goddess of fortune for her past favors...
Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 10 p.m., ABC). Ronald Colman in The Green Goddess...