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Word: goddess (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Andelin's 1965 book, Fascinating Womanhood (Pacific Press; $6.95), which has sold more than 400,000 copies, and is about to be issued in paperback. Students will be paying $12.50 for a new kit that includes the paperback edition of Womanhood, plus such items as the Domestic Goddess Planning Notebook, for listing tomorrow's chores, and the Love Book, for scribbling down the endearments her husband will utter once the wife learns her lessons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: Total Fascination | 3/10/1975 | See Source »

...interruptions that grant him stature. With a strange accent that suggests all nations and an abiding virility, Brynner gives the musical its few seconds of truth and vitality. Lest they endure, Joan Diener, as Penelope, always manages to shriek them to a close. In Homer's Odyssey, the goddess Circe changes the hero's shipmates into swine. In this Odyssey the manufacturers have exceeded her feat; they have taken a masterpiece and turned it into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Frieze Dried | 12/30/1974 | See Source »

...PLAY IS a series of vignettes built around the myth of Demeter, the Earth goddess, and her daughter Persephone. According to the myth, Persephone is seized and abducted by Hades who takes her to his kingdom of the dead and makes her his wife and queen of the underworld. Demeter, upon learning of her daughter's fate, goes into a period of mourning so intense that it causes all green things to turn brown and die. Finally, to prevent the earth from dying, Zeus intervenes and orders Hades to restore Persephone to her mother. Hades does so, but only after...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Feminist Theater: Politics and Art | 10/8/1974 | See Source »

...Crimson jock is not an athletic god or goddess. He was not admitted here merely to uphold the honor of the school on its playing fields, and he is not worshipped as such...

Author: By William E. Stedman jr., | Title: Harvard Athletics: A Casual Romance | 9/1/1974 | See Source »

Washington hopes that the Greeks will eventually rejoin NATO and reconcile themselves to geographic partition and loose federation of the two communities-perhaps the most sensible solution after all for the island that once gave birth, or so mythology would have it, to Aphrodite, the goddess of love. Whatever Athens decides, however, the turmoil on Cyprus is far from over. The Greek Cypriots, with their large majority, are not likely to allow the Turks to retain exclusive control of the important port of Famagusta and a third of the island without a fight. The Greeks waged guerrilla warfare for four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CYPRUS: Bitter Hatred on the Island of Love | 8/26/1974 | See Source »

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