Word: cult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suggested, and two Hero of Socialist Labor medals on his chest. He firmly rejected any makeup, declined earphones for the simultaneous translation system, corrected an introduction describing the office as the room where Russia's major decisions are made: "We don't have a cult of personality any more." Then Khrushchev faced an hour of questions by U.S. newsmen for Face the Nation. This week over CBS TV and radio, Americans got the result: the season's most extraordinary hour of broadcasting...
...most recognize the need for criticism. "You can't go on showing your poems to your Uncle Louis all your life," shrugs Phil Levine, 29, who has cracked the Chicago Review. Engle's blunt teaching methods leave his students (30 men, seven women) precious little time for cult cultivation. "Any time you get the men in a room," says the wife of one, "all they talk about is poetry or sports. At least three of them are frustrated second basemen...
Each of the skits considers an aspect of the French (and occasionally of the British) national character with the sort of inane intensity a small boy devotes to a wart. Items: French Suspiciousness, British Weather. The Cult of the Liver among Middle-Aged Frenchmen, The Function of the Horse in Anglo-Saxon Courtship Patterns. There is a marvelous visual essay on the ricochet principle in Gallic traffic, and the now-familiar comic scene in which a British mother gives her daughter some moral aspirin on her wedding night: "I know, my dear, it's disgusting. But . . . just close your...
...second novel. That Uncertain Feeling, have barely topped the 5,000 mark in sales. His fellow writers would probably fare even worse, for they write with a sloppy, cliche-ridden arrogance that has been absent from serious U.S. fiction since the heyday of James T. Farrell and the cult of social protest...
...less unique but still popular off-shoot of the imported transportation mania is the cult of the little car. The little car can be anything from an Austin to a Renault or Volkswagen (never a Hillman Minx, of course); it has unusual features, such as the engine being in back (which makes for question-provoking louvres where the trunk lid should be), or turn signals that point out from the door posts instead of blinking from the rear fenders, lending a quaint, Old World flavor. The real virtue of the little car, of course, lies just in its being little...