Word: idolization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...apply the language but not the rigor of science to defend a literal interpretation of Genesis. As the creationists see it, the universe and solar system were born only 10,000 years ago, humans trod the earth in the company of hulking dinosaurs, and evolution is a false idol. Although they have lost legal battles in Arkansas, Texas and most recently Louisiana to require their teachings in public school biology classes, the creationists continue their attack against evolution. For their latest foray, they have enlisted the aid of a favored if surprising ally: the bombardier beetle, a half-inch insect...
...Lasch cannot explore the questions he raises nearly as well as novelists can. Nor can he, in contrast to the religious or ethical writer, and to politicians of all varieties, even pretend to settle an aspect of such issues. I his particular view of the intellect makes it an idol which must be smashed--even if, given the contradictions in Lasch's arguments, it is a very shabby god indeed...
When erstwhile Screen Idol N.T. Rama Rao, 61, was dismissed as chief minister of India's southern state of Andhra Pradesh last month, an eruption of protests left 53 dead and hundreds injured. With national elections due to be held by mid-January, many Indians saw his ouster as another in a string of attempts by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi to bring down state governments run by her opponents. Although Mrs. Gandhi denied any role in the removal of Rama Rao, the rising opposition has clearly been damaging to her Congress (I) Party. Last week the state governor...
...early idol was Herbert Hoover, whom the magazine briefly touted as a presidential candidate for 1920. By the 1930s, the editorials were explicitly socialist. In 1946 former Vice President Henry Wallace became editor, before his left-wing campaign for President. But by 1952, the magazine had returned to the Democratic Party mainstream. Almost never profitable, it drew its funding from a succession of wealthy sponsors and its opinions from editors, including Walter Lippmann and Edmund Wilson. Peretz, a Harvard social sciences teacher who inherited some money and whose wife is an heiress, revamped both the magazine's politics...
...that sounds corny, but somehow Olden makes Piper genuine and likeable. Even pulling is knife or punching out his shrink, Olden looks more troubled and pensive than simply angry and resentful. Too young and too untouched by the Francis Ford Coppola idol maker crowd to play the latest Matt Dillon or Poster of the Week, Olden acts and acts well...