Word: cult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Everything." His trip last spring to the Bandung conference, where Nehru and Chou En-lai made much of him, helped convince Nasser that he had become a world figure. His pressagents, exuberantly whooping up the cult of the Cairo hero, seem to have influenced him at least as much as their readers. Two years of almost unbridled authority have also left their mark. "I know everything that goes on in this country," he told a U.S. newsman recently. "I run everything myself...
...Soviet Parliament or the Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R. goes into session in Moscow tomorrow. The Deputies and the Soviet people at large note that the present session will reflect the changed atmosphere in the country wherein the harmful results of un-Soviet personality cult that cropped up in the last years of Stalin's life are being successfully eradicated. The Communist Party and the Soviet government have already done a great deal to develop genuine people's democracy in this country to the fullest...
...would be wrong," declared the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the U.S.S.R. last week, "to close one's eyes to the fact that certain of our friends abroad have not got to the bottom of the question of the personality cult." When it comes to getting to the bottom of something, nobody can beat the Kremlin's leaders. Down they went in their hip boots, sloshing around in a swamp of doubletalk, and throwing little bits of misinformation behind them, like cracker crumbs, for those who tried to follow them. But they were not very helpful...
...impersonal historic forces. One such explanation-and the obvious one-for Stalin's rise to arbitrary power is the absence of checks and balances in the Communist system. Unable to concede this, Moscow's Central Committee offered an explanation which explained nothing: "The development of the personality cult was to an enormous extent contributed to by some individual traits of J. V. Stalin...
Saarinen's insistence on doing this has made him one of the most debated, and at the same time imaginative, architects today. Rejecting the cult of the cube as the answer to every problem, he made his M.I.T. auditorium a billowing, white shell of concrete, resting on three points, in which the acoustic elements could be placed. His questioning ("Need a church be rectangular?") produced M.I.T.'s cylindrical brick hatbox chapel, lighted from a single honeycomb skylight above and light bounced up from the narrow, containing moat through low arches to give the interior a grotto-like mystery...