Word: idolization
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...strength and beauty. The story of a highstrung, attractive, weak woman, told as she is reflected in the lives of her various lovers,: is superbly wrought. I can think of no other picture of broken idealism so striking as that of young Neil confronted with the truth about his idol, Marian Forrester. The background of the Middle West of the last century seems thoroughly inconsequential. The story is that of Marian Forrester. Here, surely, is writing one of the most brilliant technicians in American letters...
...time of the Russo-Japanese War he was 43. He was known to be a competent officer in a wide sense of the term; his painstaking knowledge gave him an uncanny grasp of naval affairs and won him the position of Chief of Staff to Admiral Togo, famed idol. From then on his success was assured...
Lucky escape. Then Martin Devlin came along. He looked like Eugene O'Brien; (cinema idol); his "masterful wooing" just swept her off her feet. The jealous wife of her boss made her business position impossible. She married Martin. The marriage lasted four years. Martin was extravagant?too good a spender ?his ideas of marriage and Jeannette's didn't jibe?he wanted children?she said they couldn't afford them?she missed her independence. The break came, when, at last, she went back...
Oddly enough, D. H. Lawrence, enbeavered idol of the ultra moderns, leads all the rest in the race for oblivion. His name appears on five lists, while no other candidates, except Henry James (three) and Paul Claudel (three), have more than two supporters...
...enbeavered idol of the ultra moderns...