Word: idol
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just why this is so presents no problems, as the Big Men on any Louisiana campus will reveal. Huey Long is their man, an Idol of the idols. He awed the people, and the B.M.O.C. have taken the clue...
...pushups, religiously devotes 15 minutes a day to the Five-Foot Shelf of Harvard Classics, and methodically sprinkles wheat germ in his orange juice. On their honeymoon, he and Sylvia scarcely sit down to a cozy little dinner when he drags her table-hopping to meet a business idol of his, stifling Sylvia's protests with the reminder that it never hurts, as Willis always puts it, to "sweeten a contact." As he zooms along to corporate heights, Willis Wayde seems like the prototype for David Riesman's "other-directed" personality. He assiduously collects antiques, not because...
...Country Girl was final proof that she is more than merely beautiful. The well-bred girl from Philadelphia is completely convincing as the slatternly, embittered wife of aging, alcoholic Matinee Idol Bing Crosby. She slouches around with her glowing hair gone dull, her glasses stuck on top of her head, her underlip sullen, resentment in the very sag of her shoulders and the dangle of her arms. She looks dreadful. Said Seaton: "You know that old cardigan sweater she wears? Well, a lot of actresses would say, 'Well, why don't we just put a few rhinestones here...
Geoffrion is the hottest thing on ice today, although he has spent his brief big-time career-only three full seasons with Montreal-in the shadow of two great stars: his teammate and idol, Maurice ("the Rocket") Richard, and brilliant Gordie Howe of the Detroit Red Wings. But Richard, who holds the alltime records,* is slowing down a bit and Howe was out of action with a shoulder injury for six games this autumn, and fell behind...
...judgment will not be in the future soft on the issue of Communism," he said. Arizona's Barry Goldwater said that McCarthy's charges against Ike were "not true." Even Maryland's John Marshall Butler, whose 1950 election victory is widely credited to McCarthy, deserted his idol, calling the attack "most unfortunate and uncalled for." Of the 22 Senators who had voted for McCarthy a few days before, only Idaho's Herman Welker publicly took a place at Joe's side. Said Welker: "I hardly think it is necessary for the Chief Executive...