Word: demigods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...front of the Concert Hall in Stockholm, Sweden, stands a 24-ft. figure of Orpheus, demigod of Music, sinewy and poised in bronze, with his great lyre lifted and one hand just sprung from the strings. In a circle of fountains below him eight listeners, wakened from death, turn outward and upward toward the music...
There is, I think, nothing of the demigod in Franklin D. Roosevelt. I have no sense of over-shadowing greatness. I do, however, believe that he has certain qualities which particularly fit him to be the chief executive in the government of the United States. He is, in the first place, a skillful politician. I do not mean merely that he is skilled in the art of political organization, but that he knows how to deal with the legislative branch of the government and at the same time secure the confidence of the general public. In a successful president both...
...earnest Brooklyn physicians who invited him to tell them about vitamins last week, Johns Hopkins' Nutritionist Elmer Verner McCollum was a demigod who enabled doctors and druggists to profit from the vitamin business. When he finished speaking they beamed less amiably at him. For Dr. McCollum debunked some of the claims made for some of the vitamins...
...educational system in this country been the demigod some have supposed, any crisis in its health should have been viewed with alarm. But the fact is that education is still several decades behind present-day social and economic needs. The whole vast secondary-school system is nothing more nor less than a widespread and well-organized college "prep" course. A majority of the colleges are training schools for the professions, as if we could successfully operate an industrial world with trained ministers, lawyers, teachers, doctors and dentists while all other workers remained untrained...
...nose in hagiography. This little (215 pp.) anthology of saints' lives, at least one for every day in the year, is "not a learned work" nor a book for the devout, but "a simple picture of a crowd . . . blessed degenerates, mere sportsmen of asceticism, man-sized infants, a demigod or two, politicians, fearful beauties, awful fools, and, of course, those for whom there simply would have had to be some such word as 'saint' even if Christianity had not come to pass...