Word: idolator
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...upstairs with reminiscences, political commentary ("Lodge has gone as far as he can go; I see Rocky ahead in California") and laid-yesterday jokes ("Hello, this is Candid Camera"). Joseph Gorman may be short, paunchy, balding and pushing 60, but to his fans he means more than any matinee idol; he means idle matinees...
...Charleston, S.C., the News & Courier, swallowing its disappointment over its idol Barry Goldwater's indifferent showing, found room to rejoice, after a fashion, over the emergence of Lodge. Said that paper, in what was surely the weirdest political forecast of the year: "The size of Mr. Lodge's write-in vote, compared to the Democratic write-in for Robert F. Kennedy, suggests to us a Johnson-Lodge combination...
...mourning or I will buy you a house.' " In 1960, his first professional season, he killed 72 young bulls-and ragged though he was, won 90 ears, 31 tails, 13 hoofs for his heart-stopping brushes with death. The next year he fought 109 bulls and was the idol of shopgirls and peasants. He had five pasodobles composed for him, played himself in a movie of his life, called Learning...
...prolific reviewer himself, Auden identified four varieties of critic: the prig, "for whom no actual poem is good enough since the only one that would be is the poem he would like to write himself but cannot." Second, the critic's critic--"on the surface he appears to idolize the poet...but his critical analysis of his idol's work is so much more complicated and difficult than the work itself as to deprive someone who has not yet read it of all desire to do so." Third, the romantic novelist, whose "happy hunting ground is the field of unanswerable...
...There seems to be a tendency to make the law an idol," he said. "The issue of legality is not to be lightly pushed aside, but neither is the issue of morality. It is necessary to break the law in order to achieve justice; this is the tradition of the development of the laws...