Word: idolator
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dalai Lama. You correctly quoted the principle of Buddha's philosophy of life as self-conquest. This is refreshing to see, since an alarming number of Westerners seem to be under the impression that Buddhism is a lot of heathen mumbo jumbo designed to please a golden idol so that he would send the worshiper to heaven...
Houphouet first became the idol of his people shortly after World War II, when he launched a campaign against the French settlers who raided villages for the laborers they needed and then, at harvest's end, paid each victim barely enough to get home again. When the French tried to gather evidence against Houphouet, who was then following the Communist line, they found not a single African who would inform. The French soon gave up the chase-having made a conquest. After throwing off his Communist ties. Houphouet popped up in Paris, became French West Africa's leading...
Black Eye. Newspaper columnists and indignant M.P.s bent angrily over the fallen idol. Hissed the London Daily Mirror's "Cassandra": "While he was a-mewing and a-puling in his cot, at least 2,000,000 young men of about the same age as he is now [19] went to war against Germany and Italy. Almost every man jack of them felt they would never make a soldier because 'they weren't cut out for it.' " But Dene was cut out of it entirely; after two months of psychiatric and other treatment, he got a medical...
...Fidel Castro that the U.S. will see is still an idol to Cuba's masses, but he has lost favor with much of the middle class that financed his way to power, and he has disillusioned many foreign spectators who cheered his rebellion against dictatorship. In his first 100 days he has seemed to savor power more and more while exhibiting the views and comprehensions of a college radical...
Trembling with fatigue from the top of her platinum-blonde hair to the tips of her dainty little (size 5) shoes, the onetime idol of 2,000,000 G.I.s faced newspaper photographers one night last week in a cramped backstage office of Manhattan's garish Latin Quarter. "Let's have a leg shot, Betty," shouted a cameraman, and gamely she snaked out one of the most celebrated gams this side of Marlene Dietrich. "Spread open your dressing gown," snapped one photographer. "You look like you only...