Word: idolator
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Will Fyffe, 62, pawky,* keg-shaped idol of the British music halls; of injuries sustained in a fall; in St. Andrews, Scotland. A court favorite, "Our Wull" had a latter-day career in radio and cinema, but had already won early fame & fortune from another generation of variety enthusiasts as a wry, sly, spry character comedian...
...night, when right-wing Socialist Matteo Matteotti tried to speak in a shabby Rome suburb, Communists attacked him and knocked him to the ground (he is the son of Giacomo Matteotti, the Socialist martyr killed by Mussolini's thugs in 1924, whom the Communists still treat as an idol). Another evening, Communists cornered a group of young Christian Democrats. One Catholic youth of 22 was kicked, beaten and knifed to death (see cut). Daily through Rome's streets roared big trucks bringing thousands from the city's slums to Communist rallies-not to fill their empty bellies...
...Evil were two. In India, however, the accused was feared and terribly propitiated by millions as Kali, goddess of death and catastrophe, wife-conqueror of the eternal Siva, the dancer. Not in Kali's name were the 100,000 killed. The Moslems despised her as a wretched idol. The Sikhs* ignored her. Even most Hindus no longer participated in the rites of Kali's priests, who dismembered goats (in lieu of human victims), spraying the blood upon worshipers crowded in fields of which Kali was mother, fructifier and scourge. Nevertheless Kali, the Black One, could stand as symbol...
...intense family man, and a curiosity among show people because he begins to yawn around 11 p.m. He has patiently steered his children* through their emotional mumps and ideological measles (bursts of radicalism here, seizures of Oxonian ambitions there). He is their idol, up to a point. When son Jimmy, at 13, wrote a piece of music (he goes in for pretty serious stuff), his mother suggested that he show it to Dad. "Aw," said Jimmy, "he'd just want to write the lyrics...
...plays it to a fare-thee-well is England's durable matinee idol, 54-year-old Ivor Novello. A kind of poor woman's Noel Coward, Novello also wrote the play and composed its half dozen hit songs. As playwright, he instinctively senses the emotional desires of a woolgathering audience. As composer, he sets his public's daydreams to soft, sugary music. As actor he hams it for all it is worth...