Word: idols
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...middle-aged American woman will ever forget the February of her years, when an undernourished kid with a big bow tie and an Adam's apple was the idol of all the bobby-socked, sad-dle-shoed groupies. Of course, they weren't called groupies then, and all they did was swoon. In the years since the 1940s, the kid put on weight-and threw it around like no other performer before or since. He was the Chairman of the Board of all show business. But last week Frank Sinatra, at 55, announced "effective immediately, my retirement from...
Instead, Mr. Cabot chose to engage in hero-worship, which in most instances is indicative of a mind that ignores the complexities of man, and is always most demeaning, ultimately, to its object. All is my champion, but no man is my idol...
...Open. Saber is not everybody's idol, even in the Arab world. El Moujhaid's literary critic found the books "lacking in style and humor" and decided that author and hero "ludicrously underestimate the caliber of Israeli agents." But Arabs are momentarily short of other heroes, and so SM-15's cult is growing...
Advances in the scientific specialties require early, intense concentration on getting to know the tools of research. These advances are important but perhaps overrated. Too often the advancement of science is mistaken for the idol to whom obeisance is due instead of the amelioration of the lot of man. In either case, the idol often calls for human sacrifice...
...Elvis, the painful record of a past master in decline. The real Preslev long ago evaded our generation; like other hoarded treasures of our culture, he was taken from us and reissued by the corporate entertainment industry. And, eager to catch whatever glimpse we could of the fallen idol, we paid for the transformation. As if time is not enough of a danger, we hasten the process of change, we ensure the disappearance of our actual past. Once again they ask us for our appreciation, our money, and, once again, I suppose we'll be only too happy to give...