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...game than meets the dilettante's eye. They have learned to call themselves "checkerists," have taken up the game's esoteric lingo, become used to describing moves and successions of moves by the numbered squares on the boards. They even have their private deity: a goddess named Dama (Italian for checkers...
...Brooklyn Tablet trumpeted that the WAACs were "no more than an opening wedge, intended to break down the traditional American and Christian opposition to removing women from the home and to degrade her by bringing back the pagan female goddess of desexed, lustful sterility." Wrote The Commonweal, Catholic liberal weekly: "If the home is thought of impatiently as that which keeps the wife and mother from war work, the amount of war work which she might do no longer signifies, for the soul of our society will already be lost...
...hard to know just who to blame for this play. Everybody knows about the red haired Virgin Goddess from Connecticut. You can take her or leave her. Most people want to take her. And Nugent-well, he has a rare sense of comedy, a loping walk, a straightforward manner that is tailor-made to unfreeze the sort of female Hepburn usually plays. Neither of them is up to par in "Without Love," but the real weakness is in the play itself. Barry couldn't decide whether he wanted to write a drawing room comedy or a social drama...
...splendid palace on the peninsula of Yamato, the mighty Emperor Jimmu celebrated his various successful aggressions by offering up sacrifices to Ama-terasu-Ö-mi-Kami, sometimes known as the Sun Goddess, his great-great-grandmother. Thus was founded (so Japanese chroniclers say) the Empire of Japan...
...quite convincing effort, through radio, to give Ling Tan (and the U.S. reader) a realization that his people suffer not alone but as companions among the peoples of a planet. The last 50 pages are would-be-legendary romancing about the fierce third son and the goddess-like young woman who is found fit to be his wife and to pair off with him, presumably, as a symbol of China's Future...