Word: antaeus
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...politicians, prolonged residence in Washington, D.C. often has the same consequences which lack of contact with the ground had for Antaeus the wrestler.* Last week, like Antaeus returning to the source of his strength, Dwight Eisenhower headed out into the U.S. countryside...
...forward as Premier. Ten days later, "at his own wish." Malenkov gave over the vital party secretaryship, and its control of party cadres, to Old Bolshevik Nikita Khrushchev. In Stalin's day, when men began growing too big, he handled them as Hercules did the giant Antaeus: he lifted them up and kept their feet off the ground, whereupon, having lost touch with their roots, they became weak enough to destroy. Beria, presumably, may be doing the same with Malenkov...
...triumph was short; Perón no sooner fell than he rose again like Antaeus, seemingly stronger than ever (TIME, Oct. 29). Braden's confirmation as Assistant Secretary was before the Senate, and his critics set upon him in full...
Reinhold Glière: Symphony No. 3 ("Ilya Murometz") (Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra; Victor; 11 sides). A Soviet composer, no modernist, writes rousingly of Ilya Murometz, a mythical Russian resembling Paul Bunyan and the classical, earth-sustained Antaeus. Stokowski gives it the works...
When Franklin Delano Roosevelt made this statement at Boise, Idaho, last week the "mythologist" to whom he referred was presumably the giant, Antaeus, whom Hercules defeated by lifting him off the ground and strangling him. Even more justifiably, he might have compared himself to a mythical hero with whom his listeners in the Northwest would have been more familiar-the lumberjack giant, Paul Bunyan, who spanned the Rocky Mountains in one stride, left lakes in his footprints and lit his pipe with fir trees...