Word: idol
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cracks in the Idol. This spirit of attack charges Mauldin's work. At home, he can ridicule the race issue by drawing two Dixie rednecks armed with baseball bats and speculatively eying a Negro just out of the picture. "Let that one go," says one. "He says he don't wanna be mah equal." He treats the space race between Russia and the U.S. with barbell scorn: a monkey up a tree demands of its space-suited companion back from a quick zip through the firmament, "Where the hell have you been?" Ranging across the world for targets...
...tied by the hampering allegiances that can destroy a cartoonist's punch. "I have lots of acquaintances and few friends," he says. Democrat Mauldin was all for John Kennedy during the campaign, but lost little time after the election in searching for cracks in the idol. He poked fun at the new host of Harvard men in Washington, showed Kennedy sitting in a rocking chair knitting while U.S. prestige declined. On the two crucial issues of the New Frontier so far -Laos and Cuba - Mauldin has hit as hard as anyone: Khrushchev amiably consumes a fowl (Laos) as Kennedy...
...years, a sure way to make any flag officer blanch in dismay has been to suggest that Vice Admiral Hyman Rickover, father of the nuclear submarine, might become Chief of Naval Operations. He never will. But in idol-smashing testimony released last week by a House subcommittee on defense appropriations, he demonstrated what a lively tour of duty he would have...
...light of new dimensions of reality, then atheism is not by itself an irreligious stance. It is the movement of the spirit by which religion itself may be saved from itself. Nothing could be more tragic than to find ourselves hugging our own sanctified, even pseudo-Christian idol, blind and hostile to the living revelation of God's mystery in our own time...
...grinding poverty, a wiry, vicious brawler in his sugar-cane town of San Cristóbal. Opportunity arrived with the U.S. Marines, who landed in 1916 to watch over customs collections and bond payments, and who used Trujillo as an informer and procurer of obliging ladies. Trujillo's idol was a trigger-happy captain named C. F. Merkle, whose idea of order was shooting "troublemakers." Merkle was finally arrested, and committed suicide before he could be tried. But Trujillo went on to become boss of the Dominican armed forces, a position he used to make himself President...