Word: cult
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Personality: A passionate adherent to the Foreign Office's "cult of anonymity," bald, grey-eyed Careerman Caccia is a walking file on British policy problems, works quietly and effectively behind scenes, is quick and droll at the conference table. When the Russians accused the British of building a bomber base in postwar Vienna ("It was really only a flivver strip"), Caccia said that he would deliver a case of whisky if they could land a twin-engined plane there, added: "You pay the funeral expenses." The Russians dropped the complaint. Speaks French, German, Italian, Greek and a little Mandarin...
...Stevenson is interested in the little man," he said, "but he is not a Madison Avenue product who appeals to the personality cult." He contrasted this to the incumbent government, "run by a Big Business outfit that favors the "big against the small...
...raised by First Party Secretary Khrushchev's exposure of Stalin as an egomaniac and mass murderer last February was, How does this affect Mao? Last week, gathered for the eighth National Party Congress in their history, the first since 1945, Chinese Communists let it be known that the "cult" of Mao's "personality" was ended, but that Mao was still their august leader...
...were merely deferring to the pattern suggested by their Soviet brethren, a pattern explained in person to the Chinese Reds by the most distinguished visitor to their conclave, First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan. Mikoyan explained how the Soviet Party had made itself "more united and strong" by overcoming the "cult of the individual." In his 6,700-word address, he heaped praise on the Chinese Communists for their "transformation of China into a mighty industrial power," made only one reference to Mao-but it was a robust one. Mao, he said, is a "distinguished Marxist-Leninist" who has made...
...ordinary, humdrum existence make up a world ever at war with "night people." This is the opinion advanced by a late-hour New Jersey disk jockey named Jean (after Victor Hugo's Jean Valjean) Shepherd, 33, whose burgeoning radio audience (estimated at 400,000) is largely a cult of Shepherd zealots...