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...Korean myths exalting Jong Il are so elaborate as to be hilarious. As with Kim Il Sung, who was said to have nearly supernatural powers and be in several places at the same time, Kim Jong Il's life is swaddled in layers of official fable worthy of a demigod. His birth was foretold by a swallow. A double rainbow appeared over sacred Mount Paektu when he was born. The mythographers have not claimed that he was suckled by a she- wolf and tutored by centaurs, but their hyperbole in other matters is nearly that far a reach. Jong...
...banished by a victorious Christianity. The devil's appurtenances derive from the great Greek god Pan -- half-man, half- goat -- and from association with the cult of the forest deity Cernunnos of northern Europe. Relegated to the shadows, the pagan gods were absorbed by the master of darkness, the demigod on the margins...
...Arch, soft-spoken and witty, Cage was passionately adored by his acolytes right up to his death at age 79 in 1992, and continues to be regarded by some as a kind of contemporary Beethoven, his influence ranging as far afield as Germany and Japan (where he is a demigod). And yet: Was there ever a composer of whom it can be said that his most representative and perhaps best work is one that consists of four minutes and 33 seconds of silence...
Even if Masson prevails, enough of what Malcolm said about him has been validated to brand him forever as a reckless egomaniac, philanderer and self- promoter who dared to impugn the integrity of Freud, the demigod of his former field. If Malcolm wins, it will be despite her readiness to alter facts in service of her vision of truth. She admitted cleaning up and clarifying Masson's prose, which is common journalistic practice. She also combined remarks made months apart, in different circumstances and on different coasts, into a single monologue -- which is not common practice at all. She felt...
Alternate: Professor JOSEPH S. NYEJR.--This international relations demigod isfamous for balancing different world views andproducing his own mish-mash theory to pleaseeverybody. The perfect complement to waffle-proneClinton...