Word: cult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...appalled to learn of the outrageous use of psychometric tests made by a Maryland social service agency. Granted that the test is valid (which is quite a concession for the age of 2½), this cult of intelligence worshipers seems so bedazzled by a high IQ that it overlooks the fact that rearing a brilliant child without siblings (even though less bright) will not prepare the child for life in a world full of intelligent people. The agency perhaps does not realize that overprotection can be as injurious as rejection...
...Paradoxically Khrushchev took full power by denouncing "the personality cult" of Stalinists who (he said) wanted to bring back the hated tyranny; yet it was he who was setting up a one-man dictatorship. Perhaps Khrushchev hoped to avoid a return to the unprofitable nightmare of Stalinist horror. Yet in the deadly Soviet game of power, victory has its own momentum and defeat its own awful logic. The "lose and live" policy, which lasted while the forces of power were in uneasy equilibrium, might not survive now that Khrushchev is in control. The increasing mentions of the "Leningrad Case...
...sought to frustrate so vastly important a measure as the reorganization of industrial management"; 2) "failed to recognize the necessity for increased material incentives for the collective-farm peasantry"; 3) stubbornly resisted "the measures which the . . . party was carrying out to do away with the consequences of the personality cult"; 4) "offered constant opposition . . . to the struggle against the revisionists of Marxism-Leninism" inside and outside the country; 5) they had "attempted to oppose the Leninist policy of peaceful coexistence between states with different social systems"; and 6) they had "carried on an entirely unwarranted struggle against the party...
Asked by CBS' Ed Murrow to define his foreign policy, Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito gave it a game try, sounded like a sorghum Senator caught without his ghostwriter: "Well, it is difficult to say-how I shall put it-because it is a d'iffi-cult job. Our foreign policy is known. Well, we are not in any of the existing blocs. We stand for the principles of coexistence. And, of course, if it is necessary now to describe our foreign policy, then one-one must take care to-to-to do it in that...
...Gigantic Fugue. Adopting evolution as his religion, Mondrian made a cult of the new, preferred man-made scenery to nature, turned his back on the Bois de Boulogne to avoid seeing the trees, furiously danced the Charleston (when The Netherlands banned it, he announced that he would never return home to Amsterdam). His ascetic dryness kept women at a distance. The only feminine touch in his studio was an artificial tulip, surrounded by leaves painted white...