Word: pantheon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There are some 4,000,000 Bhils scattered through the arid lands of west and central India, and they are poor, even for India. A wife, a cow and a plow are enough to make a Bhil a rich man. The Bhil's special god in the Hindu pantheon is Kaladev, "the Black God." While enlightened on the subject of caste ("There is only one caste which embraces all mankind"), the god Kaladev has long blessed the Bhil custom of concealing their women under heavy sacklike cloaks that cover their heads completely. Tantia decided to liberate them...
...CORNERSTONE (482 pp.)-Zoé Oldenbourg-Pantheon...
...avoid. He wanted to build no personal monument but a palace for Everyman, which would be a lasting glory to the nation. The neoclassic building cost Mellon $15 million, is as palatial as any structure to be found in the Western Hemisphere. Its central dome was modeled on the Pantheon in Rome. The rotunda and windowless exhibition wings are constructed of over 40 kinds and shades of marble, from "Istrian Nuage" (Italy) to "Vermont Radio Black," and enclose five acres of exhibition space. There are fat-cushioned couches for the foot-weary, and fountain courts ringed with fishtail palms...
...LEATHERSTOCKING SAGA, by James Fenimore Cooper, edited by Allan Nevins (833 pp.; Pantheon; $8.50). In a heroic effort to save one of his favorite authors from the oblivion of an unread classic. Columbia University's versatile Historian Allan Nevins has undertaken to streamline Fenimore Cooper for moderns. A lifelong Cooper fan who played make-believe Deerslayer as an Illinois farmboy, Nevins has taken the five Leatherstocking tales-The Deerslayer, The Last of the Mohicans, The Pathfinder, The Pioneers and The Prairie-shorn away the interminable love passages and faded humor, deftly stitched the rest together to fit into...
BEETHOVEN AND HIS NEPHEW, by Editha Sferba and Richard Sferba (351 pp.; Pantheon; $5). The authors are concerned with the vulnerable man, not the venerable musician, and apparently are out to demonstrate, largely using Beethoven's own words against him. that the great composer was insufferable. He was slovenly, sadistic, puritanical, suspicious, demanding, uncontrolled, domineering, violent. After he became guardian of his nephew Karl (the boy's father had died), Beethoven tried to own his life com pletely, eventually drove him to an unsuccessful suicide attempt. Freudians Richard and Editha Sterba charge Beethoven with an "unconscious homosexual" relationship...