Word: pantheon
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THERE WAS GREAT PURITY in William O. Douglas, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1939 to 1975. Douglas stands a lonely figure in the drafty pantheon of recent American heroes. Yet even near the end of his life, when others had conferred on him an almost ethereal mantle of rectitude, he scarcely seemed to notice. A classic though entirely atypical Westerner, Douglas seemed intent only on getting the job done, the wrong righted, and the next case summoned before the court...
...Garfield version, to be published in the U.S. by Pantheon Books in 1981, is sympathetic to the circumstances that fathered Drood: Dickens was consumed by his liaison with the 20-year-old actress Ellen Lawless Ternan. "The affair overshadows the book," Garfield be lieves. "Jasper represents Dickens himself. At times the affair with a girl so much younger must have appalled Dickens, who had conventional moral views...
That the cadets' encounter with the Crimson merits inclusion in the pantheon of "days" reveals how seriously this campus is taking today's sold-out football game. More than a confrontation between two football teams that seem headed for winning seasons after several dismal years, the game pits the nation's two best-known--and perhaps most different--academic institutions against one another for the first time since...
AMERICAN DREAMS: LOST AND FOUND by Studs Terkel; Pantheon; 470 pages...
...heroes share rationality and expertise, none are geniuses but all are talented. Steering clear of poets, not to mention saints, prostitutes and writers, he concentrates on the sane. His ideals are Jeffersonian-farmers wander in and out of his collections, and inventors rank only below professional canoeists in his pantheon. Meet Richard Eckert, a man given to "gray suits, gray socks, black shoes, white shirts and Paisley ties," who invents the wave-tossed nuke while he is "standing wet, naked and soapy in his shower." This, perhaps, is inspiration of a sort, but a wet and soapy sort. Eckert came...