Word: cult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...upon the thin ice and dragged himself to safety, effecting a rather neat self-rescue. On emerging from his polar bath, he remained ashore just long enough to tell the crowd which had gathered that he was a member of the Boston Brownies, the Bay State division of the cult of polar bathers...
...interesting chapter on "The Inferiority Complex in Art" Mr. Fry relates the modernist cult in the arts with the democratic spirit in politics. The lack of culture in the ruling mob he believes is one impetus to the success of modernistic art which panders to the naive mass of uncultured culture seekers. He believes that the phenomenon of this new art presents a problem for profound study by psychologists. "The deification of ugliness and obscenity, the urge for mutilation, deformation, muddy color and exaggeration, are all symptoms," he says, "of sadism, indicating a form of psychopathiasexualis...
...Eleusinian ceremonies remain wreathed in shadow. From inscriptions, works of art, and allusions of old chroniclers and dramatists it appears that the mystae or votaries made annual pilgrimages from Athens, watched some sort of passion play, witnessed a parade of holy objects, heard a discourse by a hierophant. The cult was centred around a legend of the Goddess Demeter, who sorrowed for her abducted daughter, searched for her, sat by a sacred well...
...practice on the side is not pinched. His title is Vice Chairman of the Legion's National Legislative Committee. The chairman of the committee is an appointive nonentity who changes every year. He and the Legion's national commander decide policies while John Thomas Taylor is the cult's high priest in the legislative temple...
...knothole in a legal fence, decided fortnight ago that Nudist Vincent Burke was not guilty of "indecent exposure and openly outraging public decency" when he gave a nudist party in an uptown Manhattan gymnasium. Believing that the court approved the contention of all high-minded nudists that their cult is a matter of Health, Mr. Burke put his head through the legal knothole and crowed: "The court has declared Nudism is legal in New York State and inasmuch as the laws in all the other States are patterned closely after the New York State law, this decision will undoubtedly serve...