Word: worshipping
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...invention. So we ask athletes to maintain an authenticity that we don't want to-to be museum pieces of purity. Is that hypocritical? Yes, because the fan-athlete relationship is inherently hypocritical: fans want sports heroes to be more admirable than the rest of us. We used to worship athletes for being mightier, faster, greater than we could imagine. The day may come when we gather in stadiums-with our bought-and-paid-for brains, bodies and libidos-and cheer on players for making do with less...
Charley J. McNamara ’07 was initially put off by the Larry Rasterbation. “It looks like something I would hide under my mattress and show only to my closest friends,” says McNamara. For those inclined towards Summers-worship, it’s a fitting tribute...
...others are driven from their homes only to suffer the mortal pangs of disease and malnutrition. State-sponsored militias and killing squads swoop down into villages and ravage them, going from street to street and house to house, propelled by an extraordinary sense of revenge and right. Places of worship are rehabilitated into killing fields, where the wounded and infirm are annihilated in the presence of God. These invaders, some indigenous and some from far-off lands, do not fight for the future or for a greater good; they fight merely to avenge past wrongs and to impose an arbitrary...
...that radical a shift from her past roles. "I was the precocious one when I was younger, and now I'm the girlish one," she says. "Which ultimately means I've stayed the same. Which is not a good sign." Though it's precisely what makes all those men worship her. By Joel Stein
...J.F.K. was then running for the 1960 Democratic presidential nomination, and Salinger joined the team as chief press aide ... Salinger came to love his job and to worship Jack Kennedy. After Kennedy was elected, he named Salinger as his press secretary, and Pierre soon became an institution of his own. There was Pierre aboard the Honey Fitz in slacks of shocking pink; Pierre in blue and yellow shorts, chugging over the decorous grass tennis courts of Newport; Pierre flailing away on the Hyannis golf course while Kennedy watched in fond amusement ... Sometimes White House newsmen got annoyed with Pierre...