Word: demigods
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...Khrushchev: It is unpleasant to be dealing with a government whose leader is first presented as a demigod, then as a featherbrained, lamentable puppet...
...from his triumphant crusade in Europe to accept the lustrous tributes of the nation's lawmakers. This was a commander whose battle is far from finished, on leave from his post to report on a divisive, hotly debated and unpopular war. He will never be treated as a demigod, as was the charismatic MacArthur, and he is not yet a hero, as was Ike when he returned from Europe in 1945. Yet from the moment when House Doorkeeper William ("Fishbait") Miller swept down the center aisle of the packed chamber last week and announced, in his resonant Southern accent...
...ceremonious existence of Louis XIV. With learning and flair, Nancy Mitford, the biographer of Voltaire and Madame de Pompadour, employs an elegant and aphoristic style to match the complexity and splendor of her subject: the building of Versailles, and its principal inhabitant, the Sun King, revered as a demigod by his 20 million subjects...
When asked to name the fastest rising Negro businessman in the U.S., many Negro leaders answer as quickly as they can say Jackie Robinson. The former Brooklyn baseball demigod, now greying and widening at 47, holds high executive positions in a bank, an insurance company and a professional football team, also earns money as a popular speaker at Jewish community centers (usual subject: how minority groups can help each other) and as an accomplished political aide...
...daughter, she dressed young Dag for a long time in girl's clothes. Says Stolpe: "One may, without wishing to touch upon a delicate theme, guess at some connection between, on the one hand, Dag's attitude to his devotedly loved, exacting mother and his stern, reserved demigod of a father and, on the other, the fact that throughout his life he remained not only unmarried but so far as is known without any realistic contact with the opposite...