Word: demigods
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...will spare us the pageantlike pace of George Schaefer's direction and give us some supporting characters who are not just mouthpieces for historical exposition. From them we might learn something of the spirit of a time in which a figure we are expected to regard as a demigod had an uncommon number of enemies. At the very least they should goad the central figure into some emotion less tedious than all-forgiving humility...
...nationally-renowned and world-traveled Radcliffe crew remains, too. Emerging like an unwanted bastard child from the shadow of Harry Parker demigod across the Charles, Radcliffe's crew program began in September and ended in August, traversing the entire eastern seaboard and extending during the humid and oppressive summer months from the fetid, unpalatable and wretched Charles River waters to the ancient, mysterious, and tradition-laden hinterland of Europe: Moscow, Bursting from its oblivion-ridden past with the dazzle of a resurrected phoenix, though never resurrected, not even dead because it was born for the first and only time...
...most original insight in Cavell's essay is his identification of the central philosophical question in Walden the problem of free will and determinism. Men determine themselves through the mythologies they create whether the mystery of predestination or demigod at technology mystery of predestination or the damaged of technology. Thoreau says, He proceeds from there to create a mythic life this own at Walden Ponds which has written call to his neighbors, and to us, to awaken and shed the necessities we have brought upon ourselves Thoreau clearly realizes that the casting off and rebuilding of one's own life...
...boldness of these nationalistic acts has made Gaddafi a demigod to his xenophobic supporters at home. Photos of him abound in the streets, and his portrait has even been hung over the crucifix in Tripoli's Cathedral of the Sacred Heart of Jesus-which has been converted into the Gamal Abdel Nasser Mosque...
Merle McClung played basketball in the shadow of Bill Bradley. While Bradley was becoming something of a demigod at Princeton, the 6-5 McClung was calmly breaking every existing Harvard scoring record, winning All-Ivy and All-East status...