Word: demigods
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...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...
...less profound problem than the claims to truth of science or of art, Herman Melville once exclaimed: "By the best contradictory authorities, this Grecian story of Hercules and the whale is considered to be derived from the Hebrew story of Jonah; and vice versa . . . If I claim the demigod, then, why not the prophet...
...ever the inescapable capital 'I' of the humble boy who has made good, of the self made man, and of the athlete who is also a scholar, that irritates; and yet it has much that is enjoyable. Unlike Gene Tunney, Eddie Eagan ever sets himself up as a demigod, he has his weaknesses; and he never parades his "culture" and education...
...crashing wave of affairs that brought an end to the Nationalist Government of President Chiang Kai-shek (see col. 2) last week raised an echoing rumble from Shanghai. In Shanghai lives a demigod's relict, the widow of the late great Dr. Sun Yatsen, who lies in a $3,000,000 tomb outside Nanking, venerated as the prophet of the Chinese Republic. Mme Sun Yat-sen was educated at Wesleyan College, Macon, Ga. and Wellesley. She is a sister-in-law of Chiang Kai-shek and a member of the "Soong Dynasty," the family that controlled the Nationalist Government...
...joviality, learning, stimulation and insight that his every patient, student and colleague revered Sir William Osler as a demigod. For more than a decade (he died in 1919 at Oxford whither he had gone from Johns Hopkins), Medicine has agreed that there never was a studious, teaching practitioner like him. A request for a list of living U. S. doctors who approach Osler in knowledge, expertness and teaching last week brought answers from a jury representative of the profession. Out of 36 different names suggested as great in the U. S., the jury agreed only on the Brothers Mayo...