Word: idolator
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most valid. Even the Sensorialists, however, claim that sex should have emotional justification, and therefore they preach "multiple love" instead of "free love." They claim that jealousy and possessiveness are sins; that marriage is enslavement; that fidelity is a mistake but constancy a good thing. The great idol of the Sensorialists is that 18th Century pervert and jailbird, the Marquis de Sade. Leader LeGrand is writing five autobiographical novels, called Journal de Jacques, one of which has been published, and is readying a Sensorialist play for production next month...
...Jimmy never left Times Square-even when he went to Albany. By the time he was State Senator he was as famous as any matinee idol for his flashy clothes, his theatrical trick of cocking his head and firing wisecracks. He killed a Pure Book Bill with a line: "No woman was ever ruined by a book." Once, after listening to an interminable political speech about subways, he rose and cried: "For digging subways, sir, you need a pickax, not a thorax...
...half-hour show, starring Perry Come, current threat to Frank Stuatra as idol of the bobby-soxers, will feature Harvard songs and will include a few notes on life in Cambridge...
...cross the Atlantic after its London production (TIME, May 10, 1943). Now it is here, only Noel Coward addicts need be in a hurry to see it. Barring a few funny lines, it is pretty barren folderol about the life, loves and self-appreciation of a British matinee idol...
Marcantonio. The little padrone was the passionate 18th's new-style ward boss and idol...