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First to be rehabilitated was Joe Stalin himself, whom Nikita had savagely pulled down in the official myth from demigod to scapegoat-devil. Two months ago, Kremlin spokesmen raised Moscow eyebrows by giving Stalin his due for helping Russia stem the Nazi tide. Next victim to be reprieved from obscurity was Marshal Georgy Zhukov, who showed up, replete with honors and ribbons, for last month's V-E-day celebrations in Red Square. Finally, after a decade in the doghouse, the wartime chief and "father" of the Soviet navy, Admiral Nikolai G. Kuznetsov, surfaced with the publication of excerpts...
Even such a shining demigod as Bill Bradley tarnishes his splendor when he guards Williams. Bradley proved that he could scuffle with the best of them before an overflow crowd here two weeks ago. "He's one of the roughest players around," Williams said flatly in an interview yesterday...
...alone was involved in more than 50 lawsuits. If history's most absorbent author needed high legal drama, he had only to versify the royal squabbles in Holinshed's Chronicles. For low legal comedy, he had only to caricature England's primitive legal apparatus, from the demigod country justice (Shallow) to the pompous local constable (Elbow) to the wildly incompetent watchman (Seacoal...
...Daughter Susan. 15. an accomplished horsewoman, and Son Vince. 20, a 195-lb. fullback for Minnesota's College of St. Thomas. If anybody in Green Bay had a $1.000.000 house, Lombardi would be that man. When he walks down the street, people greet him as some sort of demigod. After home games. Vince and his wife Marie eat dinner at Mancie's restaurant-in ''the Lombardi Room." of course. The hottest selling item in Green Bay bars is Macnish V.L. Scotch. Everywhere else, the V.L. stands for "Very Light," but in Green Bay it stands...
Orpheus becomes a demigod, standing beyond mortal sympathies and sorrows, while Eurydice, by contrast, is even more appealingly human and defencelessly child-like. The power of his song, to charm and subdue, is beyond question--drawing, perhaps, on credence strengthened by myths leading back far past Orpheus and the Sirens...