Word: demigod
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...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...
...Jackson Pollock, by Frank O'Hara, extravagantly lauds the late drip painter. Pollock was no demigod nor even a prophet, simply an original and forceful decorative artist on the grand scale...
Ever since the ancients labeled them kin to Hanuman. demigod king of the monkeys, India's monkeys have been prolific, pampered pests. But starting in 1951, when scientists discovered that rhesus monkey kidneys were ideal for making polio vaccines, hordes of the primates were lured from the Assam jungles to worthy ends in the laboratories of the world. Shipping 150,000 small brown monkeys annually to 30 countries (80% to the U.S.), India earned $3,000,000 a year in foreign exchange; four big exporters and 5,000 trappers prospered, and many airlines cashed in on the boom...
...visitors from India danced and acted, good always triumphed, and whoever got his comeuppance was lucky to be merely killed. In one Kathakali (story-play), a demigod suffered a fate worse than death (because he rejected a nymph's advances); he was transformed into a creature half man, half woman. In another dance-drama an unbelieving king was devoured by the god Vishnu, who relished every morsel-as red streamers representing the king's innards were clawed out of his corpse...