Word: idolization
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...himself, and were the living embodiment of the strange worship that attended him in his later years. They became a cult, a rite of adoration. Readers of the Nietzsche-Wagner correspondence will recall that the philosopher, for a long time the devoted friend of Wagner, broke away from his idol in large part because he was repelled by the adulation and the molasses of flattery that Wagner accepted and enjoyed from the host of sentimentalists at Baireuth...
...POET ASSASSINATED-Guillaume Apollinaire (Translated from the French by Matthew Josephson)- Broom ($5.00). Wilhelm de Kostrovitsky (Guillaume Apollinaire), was a Frenchman famous for his eccentricities. He was a familiar figure in the Latin Quarter, leading about in his trail a gang of writers and freaks, artists and idiots. Idol of the professional modernists in literature, he was the friend of such distinguished artists as Matisse and Picasso. The Poet Assassinated is a work containing practically all of its author's unlimited peculiarities. It is remotely autobiographical, the history of a poet, whose birth is described with a somewhat appalling...
...nucleus of modern civilization is machinery Age of iron! Heart of iron! The machine has become a monstrous idol. It must be done away with. Thousands of years ago India learned the art of self control and mastered the science of happiness. India must go back to the sources of her ancient culture--the plow and the spinning wheel...
...seemed new to the actors and lacked finish, but several performances will no doubt remedy it. As always, Adelyn Bushwell was effective, although she seems more at home and certainly more attractive, in her character parts than in straight roles. Walter Gilbert, the hero, is too thoroughly a matinee idol to carry much conviction or to gain much sympathy but he had to be entirely too perfect to seem altogether human. Edward Darney, as the cunning, scheming plotter had a different part, but quite a natural one, and he handled it well throughout...
...Firpo represents a South American invasion which Dempsey alone can stop. America's attitude toward Dempsey has changed. Dempsey is defending honor, the sporting honor of the American flag. That his defense is based solely on the fortune involved does not affect the public fancy. He is a dominant idol. Never before has he felt the spotlight glow of popularity. If he should fail to win, his goose, with all its golden eggs, is finally cooked...