Word: idol
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chauncey Mitchell Depew, 92, lie ready in the desks of most editors. Why not print them as their subjects reach the age of 70? Messrs. Mellon, Depew, and many another cheerful bigwig would relish well the jest. Would not many a reader prefer to scan while his idol is yet in the quick those shrewd estimates of attainment, and compendiums of little known facts reserved by custom for obituaries...
...natural" selection a "creative" selection by which, he thinks, man will ultimately surpass his own nature. The stream of life (elan vital), having entered blind alleys in the vegetable kingdom and insect world, has achieved man in the vertebrate phylum, and will not be stopped there. Benedetto Croce (1866-), idol of Italy-although, lately, victim...
Many a Peruvian wept in silence, many another sobbed aloud, as José Santos Chocano, "The Poet of America," the literary idol of Peru, was sentenced last week to three years' imprisonment for killing one of his enemies in what he alleged to be self-defense. While his countrymen sympathize, callous-minded foreigners may think that for José to have reached the age of 51 and have thus far escaped assassination or the gallows is a miracle...
Only that morning Pilsudski had flayed the Witos Government in an interview printed by the Warsaw press. Grimly he reflected that he was still the idol of the Polish army, that most Polish soldiers subscribe to the famed remark of a nameless private: "Our Pilsudski has only to wink his eye and we will all commit anything from treason to suicide, according to his orders...
...progress more fundamental than pedagogical reform or curricula revision, but unfortunately not so well known. Men now juggle the mechanical details of education with some confidence. When, however, they enter with dogma into the realm of psychology, they exhibit the daring of folly. Freud is in part a fallen idol of the subjective psychologists; while the Behaviorists deprecate his whole doctrine. Scholars agree only upon their own ignorance...