Word: idol
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...great heroes of Soviet literature, and thus saving him from "blowing up my own importance." Evoking contempt for Mayakovsky, Pasternak says that his work "was introduced by force, like potatoes under Catherine the Great." The liberal monthly Molodaya Gvardia recently attacked an even more sacrosanct Soviet idol, Maxim Gorky. It dismissed the author of The Lower Depths as nothing more than "a fairly good documentary journalist...
...three months Bobby Leo flirted with glamorous Californians, wealthy heiresses from Texas, even the international set from Canada--but in the end it was the girl next door, who sat by inconspicuously and barely said hello, who claimed the sports idol of Everett and Cambridge...
Ronald Reagan, Movie Idol M. G Ramachandran, is running for the state assembly in Madras. There is even a "Kennedy" candidate for Parliament: a young man named Surendra Tapuriah. who affects a shaggy forelock, makes his pitch to the young and otherwise fashions himself in the Bobby Kennedy mold...
...well as such aging Roosevelt aides as former Attorney General Francis Biddle and F.D.R.'s personal secretary, Grace Tully. Carefully characterizing himself "not as a judge of painting, but as a judge of men," L.B.J. nonetheless could not resist noting that Shoumatoff's likeness of his political idol was "a portrait I like." Commissioned by the White House Historical Association, it will displace a painting of George Washington in the presidential office, and will hang there, Johnson said reverently, "as long as I am President...
...Pumpkin Idol. The rest of the analysis is equally imaginative. When Chambers climbs through a window (in the course of his tempestuous courtship of his future wife) he is not climbing through a window, he is "symbolically re-enacting the fantasy of his birth and the near-loss of his mother." His gift for self-dramatization and his vivid imagination are turned into alleged proof that nothing he said could be true...