Word: demigod
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Orpheus becomes a demigod, standing beyond mortal sympathies and sorrows, while Eurydice, by contrast, is even more appealingly human and defencelessly child-like. The power of his song, to charm and subdue, is beyond question--drawing, perhaps, on credence strengthened by myths leading back far past Orpheus and the Sirens...
...fantastic event-the posthumous revenge on a man who for years had been a demigod-could not be passed over that lightly. For most Russians, the Party Congress and the reburial brought the first solid evidence of Stalin's disgrace, and they talked about it with remarkable freedom. Mingling with the crowd in Red Square on a drizzly afternoon, TIME Correspondent Edmund Stevens listened to the restless, wondering voices...
...Doubting Demigod. Flashy as that record is, Terry Baker would still be one of the most remarkable football players in the game if he never completed a pass or made a yard on the ground. For not only has Baker wondered if Oregon State is the proper place for him-despite his status there as a demigod that would make any other player dizzy with glory-but he harbors dark doubts about the wisdom of even playing the game of football in the first place...