Word: idol
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Among the more successful teams: ¶Vienna-born Walter Surovy was a matinee idol in prewar Prague when he met Bronx-born Mezzo-Soprano Rise Stevens, then barely launched on her singing career. They were married in 1939, and at war's end. after an unsuccessful fling at Hollywood, Surovy settled down to the fulltime business of making Rise into a "national celebrity." He sent her to top Hollywood and Paris dress designers, converted her from a lank-haired brunette into a curly blonde, insisted that she take dancing lessons at the M-G-M studios...
...further instance of empirical logic is indicated in the Levitical laws on taboo and hygiene. The speaker rejected the theory that the law prohibiting the eating of pork derived from pagan use of this animal in idol worship. He also doubted that one could ascribe theological-philosophical motives as discipline, development of group identity to the dietary laws at the time of their inception, though he acknowledged that they could be given a "theological-political treatment" in the post-Israelite period...
...only a few days earlier." Another disheartening performer was Democrat Adlai Stevenson: "I approached him with something like idolatry, which I fear came through on the show. But I was disappointed in him. There was a great vagueness, a sort of drifting about in space." The winner, hardly an idol of Susskind's, was Republican Richard Nixon: "I'm not a Nixon fan, but I was enormously impressed. Unlike his colleague in the White House, he knows what he is talking about. He is amazing...
...without lions. It is true that if Writer Norman Corwin has not actually jazzed up the Old Testament's four brief chapters, he has at least given them a recognizable beat-here a child sacrificed to a flame-bellied god, there a few slaves squashed by a toppling idol. But the liberties are taken with considerable skill, and most of them make entertainingly dramatic sense. The Bible says nothing about the origins of the young Moabite widow who tells her mother-in-law Naomi, "Whither thou goest, I will go," and accompanies her to Bethlehem. Consequently...
...Frontier? This whodunit is essentially a whydidit. The man who delves into the twisted personality wreckage of the past is the stodgy self-effacing ("I am something of a square") narrator of the novel to whom Mason Flagg was a prep-school idol. Complicated flashbacks reveal that Mason Flagg is something of a heel, the hybrid product of a $2,000,000 trust fund and an incestuously possessive mother. By his 205 he is braining his wife with stray crockery, and swapping bedmates at Greenwich Village parties that Author Styron stops teasingly short of describing...