Word: cult
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...lecturer went on to speak of his first meeting with M. Villiers de I' Isle Adam, describing the man and his character. He told of his strange conversation, his terrible irony and deep scorn for his century, which replaced the cult of idealism by materialism. In nearly all his works are to be found these characteristic features. In his "Contes Cruels" and "Histoires Insolites," Villiers de I' Isle Adam is full of irony, especially in that stange "Tribulat Bonhouet...