Word: olympian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time of his death at 63 in 1931, Arnold Bennett was the ruler of Britain's literary roost. He was not only the author of 70-odd volumes of novels, plays and other assorted pieces, but the one literary critic in London whose Olympian deliberations (in the London Evening Standard) were regarded as absolute gospel...
...artists who sought to enshrine her, none had such means to match her genius as Rodin. Even their first meeting was Olympian. "My pilgrimage to Rodin," she recalled, "resembled that of Psyche seeking the God Pan in his grotto, only I was not asking the way to Eros, but to Apollo. He showed his works with the simplicity of the very great." The aging sculptor returned her admiration with a passion, sketched Isadora and her pupils countless times, once sighed: "If only I could have had models like this when I was younger." Isadora responded in kind: "What a pity...
Outspoken Spokesman. The secret of Heston's success is his capacity for appearing virile without being lecherous in Olympian roles. He is tall in the saddle (6 ft. 2 in.) and so adamantine that Jennifer Jones broke her hand slapping his face in a scene from Ruby Gentry. Furthermore, it is a virtuous, earnest face that most women would not want to slap. In his films, he is usually too busy dabbing away at a Sistine ceiling or chasing chariots to chase girls...
...Twenty years ago I'd be shipwrecked if I didn't make an Olympian out of an Abramson,' "says swimming coach Bill Brooks, "but now I accept that he is a class marshal and has other committments as well as swimming...
...college career of a Crimson swimmer who eventually became an Olympian, Brooks asked him, "Why didn't you go to Yale?" "Those were the old days," says Brooks. "That boy was giving 80 per cent of his energy to swimming at a time when I was giving a corny speech about dedicating 30 per cent to swimming...