Word: cult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cult of Comrade Zhukov's personality was cultivated in the Soviet army with his personal participation. With the help of sycophants and flatterers his person and his role in the Great Patriotic War were overglorified...
...learned all the jargon of the art-playwriting cult, read all the books, saw all the shows, talked all the talk, and even became a kind of gigantic eavesdropper upon life, prowling about the streets with his ears constantly straining to hear all the words and phrases of the passing crowd, as if he might hear something that would be rare and priceless, in a play for Professor [Baker's] celebrated course...
...more, which the regents approved last week. He will have to make provisions for an expected enrollment of 90,000 by 1970. But more important to his scattered facultymen is the kind of person Clark Kerr is−a constant critic of the Organization Man, of the cult of "factory sociology," of all those who would place security and serenity above free enterprise, whether economic or academic. "Freedom," he once wrote, "has some costs, it is true, but in our eagerness to eliminate these costs we can eliminate freedom itself. What we must realize is that freedom requires conflict...
...third theme was the blind apotheosis and weaving of a cult around the "beloved communist leaders," especially Lenin and Stalin. This cult was intended to supplant the belief in God, and the cultists went so far on this path that they vested the Red leaders with almost supernatural characteristics...
...rock-'n'-roll set of London's lesser nobility, there is no more dashing, madcap wag than the Hon. Antony Patrick Andrew Cairnes Berkeley Moynihan. Last year 20-year-old Tony Moynihan left his cult of juvenile admirers behind, departed for Australia where he said he would take up sheep farming...