Word: idol
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...young artist's idol was the lusty illustrator, N. C. Wyeth; one fateful day the grand old man telephoned him. "It was like the Lord Jehovah calling," says Hurd...
...master strain in his character is the rhetorician. Platform speeches and leading articles flow from him almost against his will. At dinner he talks and you can hardly tell when he leaves off, quoting his one idol, Macaulay, and begins his other, Winston Churchill...
...years ago, Soviet Poet Robert Rozhdestvensky, 32, was the idol of rebellious Communist youth. Sharing a platform with Evgeny Evtushenko and other young poets, Rozhdestvensky declaimed against the cult of Stalinism...
...York, toured with Cootie Williams' Orchestra. Then in 1945 he suffered the first of a series of breakdowns that have kept him in and out of mental hospitals ever since. He formed his own trio in 1949 and was soon the dominant pianist in jazz and the idol of a generation of followers. Then he cracked up and spent 1951-53 in a hospital. He rarely played well again...
...Everybody knows that the Negroes hate Goldwater. I suppose King and the other Negro leaders think that after November it will be fine for the riots to begin all over again. They had better wake up, because their idol, President Johnson, just might not make it. In Goldwater we will have a President with all the qualities necessary to make our country safe from Communism and riots...