Word: idol
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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King was once the idol of young Negroes, but now many are beginning to turn against him. They charge that King is far more interested in making speeches across the U.S. than in head-on action...
Roaming the Ages. When "Shorty" Knox joined Albright's board of directors in 1926, the gallery already had a collection of surprising quality. It roams the ages in an almost haphazard way: an African mask, a Khmer sculpture, terra cotta tomb figures from China, a Cycladic idol that dates from the Bronze Age but looks as if it might have been sculpted yesterday. There are a few minor masterpieces from the Renaissance, works by all the major French impressionists, a first-rate collection of American art from Gilbert Stuart through Winslow Homer to the present...
...brothers who have long since fled Mountain View. Luther and Howard Powell are minor captains of industry, having hewed their way directly to vice-presidencies of International Harvester and the Illinois Central Railroad. Richard took a more circuitous route, first becoming a song-and-dance man, then a movie idol, next a bullet-voiced private eye, before settling down as one of the major-and sharpest-businessmen in U.S. television...
Divorced. By Richard Wagstaff ("Dick") Clark, 31, $500,000-a-year disk jockey and baby-faced idol of the rock-'n'-roll set; Barbara Mallery Clark, 30, his high school sweetheart; after nine years of marriage, one child; in a Philadelphia court that kept secret the grounds for the decree...
Greyfriars Bobby. Walt Disney unleashes another muttinee idol in this film about the Skye terrier who, a century ago, won the freedom of the city of Edinburgh...