Word: pantheonic
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When an American Internet merchant like Jeff Bezos joins Charles Lindbergh and Winston Churchill in the pantheon of TIME's Men of the Year, it's all too easy to assume that the economic future belongs exclusively to the U.S. and that Europe will become a quaint museum dependent on tourism and some luxury niches for its livelihood. Too easy--and wrong. While the Old World is still bedeviled by archaic habits and practices, it enjoys a global lead, possibly unsurpassable, in certain sectors that are at the heart of the technological revolution...
...liability. However, Lieutenant-Colonel de Maumort is a testament to care. Du Gard took extreme pains to represent the times he wrote about. Trained as a historian, he filled his characterizations with verifiable facts, extensively researched the events he described, and carefully delved into the psyches of the pantheon of men and women he presents...
Jordan's choice for leader of the free world is Bill Bradley, himself another former basketball star. In desperate need of positive press after successive losses in Iowa and New Hampshire, Bradley's campaign unveiled a 30-second advertisement featuring Jordan explaining his support for Bradley. Jordan joins the pantheon of NBA stars who have endorsed their former colleague. In another spot, Bill Russell encouraged voters to support Bradley in the Iowa caucuses, the embodiment of the slogan "Another Celtic Fan for Bill Bradley...
...better to be a fake nobody than a real somebody. Contra Tom Ripley, this is the conclusion reached by the two lead characters in Miss Wyoming (Pantheon; 311 pages; $23), Douglas Coupland's witty and hyper discourse on celebrity. Like much of his previous work (Generation X, Microserfs), it's a brilliant set of riffs that passes as a novel with mixed success...
Lost in the bogs of Celtic myth, Yeats--unlike many of his peers in the modernist pantheon--was not much interested in modern design and architecture's streamlining ways. Or in the ability of books and magazines more and more perfectly to replicate artistic icons past and present. Or in the capacity of the movies to create their own time and space, independent of observed reality. We must imagine him, instead, mourning with the great critic Walter Benjamin the destruction of the artwork's "aura" or magic, deriving from its uniqueness, its firm roots in a specific historical place...