Word: idol
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...words, Karamanlis is the idol of Greece's peasantry, draws fire from Greek left-wingers for his unflinching loyalty to NATO. When Greek tempers flared against the British during the long Cyprus crisis, Karamanlis resisted intemperate demands for a break with Britain, and his moderation contributed heavily to the final settlement. Karamanlis is an outspoken supporter of the Western side in such places as Laos, where, he insists, "the Soviets are just playing with us. They start something here, they start something there. The time has come to make a stand...
Like a King. In slack moments, the paparazzi manufacture incidents: one of their number taunts a show business idol into arm-flailing rage, and bulbs flash. The practice has a sound commercial basis : Italian newspapers and magazines pay as little as $5 for paparazzo portraits of quiescent celebrities; pictures of celebrities rampant bring as much...
...years ago, when her husband made his first tentative pass, she told him, "Let's not start something we can't finish in a taxi on 44th Street." Like Jean Kerr, another character is a fast shuffler of cliches: his recent de parture from Hollywood, explains the aging matinee idol, was an example of "the sinking ship leaving the rats." Like Jean Kerr, a third character is full of electric shock: "A lawyer," he says, "is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, any more than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient...
...Dilemma. The Pan-African conference pointed up Nasser's curious dilemma today. Only 43, still the idol of Arab masses wherever he goes, he is a man with his ambitions unsated, a fading hero in search of a solid triumph. At home, his record is at best mixed. The Aswan Dam is under construction; Egypt's staple product, cotton, was bought up on world markets in record quantities last year. Russia has provided $170 million for industrial development, as well as $377 million for the dam (v. the U.S.'s $120 million). The Suez Canal is doing...
...that presumably links these varied souls, sects and sentiments is worshiping the false god of self, modern man's craven idol. The ammunition that Author Fitch, 59. brings to the neo-orthodox,-neo-conservative battle camp is shiny with polemical wit and brilliance, but his essential targets have long since been peppered by profounder critics, among them Reinhold Niebuhr (The Nattire and Destiny of Man), Bernard Iddings Bell (Crowd Culture), José Ortega y Gasset (Revolt of the Masses'). He seems temperamentally torn between being a Christian critic and playing the Spenglerian doomsayer in tones that resemble that...