Word: idolizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...favorite comical incongruity, a mousy little man seeking notoriety. A teller in a bank, about five feet two inches tall and an excessively mild and unemotional disposition, suddenly finds fame thrust upon him, for as the supposed killer in defense of a beautiful woman, he is the idol of the nation. The extravaganza with which this plot is unfolded, the surprise twists in the last act and some satirical comment on social climbers, women with pasts, publishers of "pornographic pulp," shysters, bankers, female adolescents who go in for studied moods and histrionics, and male adolescents who are tough...
...Compiler Ludwig Goldscheider's exhibits will be much more fun for most laymen than a walk through the Louvre. An Egyptian mummy portrait* (see cut) done about 200 A. D. looks like the work of a modern illustrator, tricks of brushwork, pretty lifelikeness and all. A Greek idol from 2,000 B. C. is obviously nothing but abstract sculpture. More than any of the impressive books in the series, Art Without Epoch gets at a new popularizing technique...
...called it swing; we still like our women more or less naked but we produce a plausible excuse in the sacred name of "athlete." And while we seek a mate among nations to honor as a friend, we also seek a mate among women to worship as an idol. We do not approach her feeling the biological urge as we once did in the days of Clara Bow, for now beauty to us is metaphysical and intellectual. In our wisdom we know we can never find her in human form, though we need her badly. But at last we have...
...little more than a year ago, the principal of Dorothy's school noticed she did not salute the flag when the other children did. "My father," explained the defiant little girl, "said it is a sin to salute the flag. He said the flag is an idol. If I salute the flag I cannot go to Heaven." To George Leoles' home went the principal, there learned he was a member of Jehovah's Witnesses (TIME, Nov. 18, 1935). When he refused to let his daughter obey the Atlanta Board of Education's flag salute requirement, Dorothy...
...However much they admire Huxley's encyclopedic knowledge and acid wit, followers are likely to balk at the regimen he lays down for those who want to achieve a "scientific-mystical conception of the world." It includes meditation, love, compassion, intelligence, moderation, physical fitness, chastity, which the ex-idol of sophisticates defines as "one of the major virtues." The energy created by sexual restraint "is the motive power which makes it possible for us to conceive these desirable ends...