Word: idolator
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Battle of the National Hotel. Waving away the presidency, Batista put the students' idol, Professor Ramón Grau San Martin, at the head of the government. But the sergeant upped himself to colonel and chief of staff, and fired almost the entire army officers' corps. The ousted officers holed up in the National Hotel. Batista sent soldiers to disarm them. Welles, who lived at the hotel, stopped that showdown by seating himself midway between the rival forces in the long lobby and imperturbably discussing Emily Dickinson's poetry with Adviser Adolf Berle until the soldiers withdrew...
...role of the scientist in society has changed drastically, Conant claimed. Far from being in the "long hair" sphere while the inventor is the public idol, the scientist of the 1950's is at once theorist and inventor, in that the public expects of him the miracles it once expected from an Edison...
...Sees her idol stand with a satisfied smile
...depressing rate. In Los Angeles, one adolescent worshiper of Crooner Johnny Ray, the Mossadegh of music, hurried to a friend to confide: "The guy went clear out on this one-he sounds like he really broke up." Other devotees, sharp enough to sniff a burlesque on their idol, launched an avalanche of protests at hilarious disk jockeys and at Capitol Records...
...yore honeymoon"), Li'l Abner was reprieved; his marriage license had expired. But this week the most unthinkable is happening. Man of Honor. As all Al Capp's "slobbering fans" know, Abner is a man of honor. When he joined a club honoring his comic-strip idol Detective Fearless Fosdick (Capp's take-off on Dick Tracy), he swore to follow Fosdick's example in every way. Fosdick soon posed a terrible problem to Abner. During an economy drive on the police force, Fosdick was told by his chief that unless he married, he would...