Word: idolizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...medievalists, has long repressed a suspicion that the 1912 discovery of the Melpham Tomb was a grandiose hoax on a par with Piltdown Man. The remains of a 7th century Christian bishop named Eorpwald had been found in the tomb. But in the coffin rested a shockingly priapic fertility idol. Ever since, disconcerted historians had been trying to adjust their theories to this evidence that the good bishop had relapsed into paganism. But Middleton knows something his fellow medievalists do not. Soon after the un earthing, the discoverer's son, Gilbert Stokesay, boasted in a moment of drunken glee...
Banks, Barbershops, Etc. Burly, thunder-voiced George Bender, 60, is perfectly frank about the length and breadth of his campaign. "I never started," he says, "and I never stop. Since his 1954 election to complete the unexpired term of his idol, Robert A. Taft, Bender has worked hard to live down his reputation as the bell ringing buffoon at the 1952 Republican National Convention. He has built up a record as a solid pro-Eisenhower Senator, and few Republicans have a better right to call upon Ike for help. Most observers agree that although he has cut deeply into...
...achievement of liberty on the new continent owed as much to geography and British Blimpishness as to George Washington. His later attempts to translate American liberty into reality back home in France involved him in one glori ous absurdity after another. Before the French Revolution, he was a popular idol, and after it he might even have become head of state. Instead, his pride in his ideas and inability to compromise lodged him in prison, cost him his fortune in millions and, finally, made him a sort of walking effigy of liberty. To realists like Mirabeau, who tried to take...
...caramel voice which murmurs it in throbbing French in a newly released Columbia album belongs to a 29-year-old Parisian chanteuse named Juliette Greco. For U.S. listeners the album offers a fresh view of a singer whose literate, melancholy repertory and haunting voice have made her the musical idol of the existentialists and a reigning favorite along the music hall and nightclub circuit...
...roll business it helps to be daffy. In Charlotte, N.C. he deeply impressed the local Observer's observer: "Presley burst onto the stage, staggering and flailing like a moth caught in a beam of light." Flouncing down to Charleston, S.C., the twitchy bobby-soxers' twitchy idol made an even deeper impression upon the press. The local News & Courier sent one of its newshens, customarily safe in its education department, to try to talk to Presley and photograph him. As she aimed her camera at him. Presley impetuously leaned over and gave her a love bite on the hand...