Word: cult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meetings in Moscow alone, the new Soviet masters set about the awesome task of re-educating Russia to the new party line against the "cult of the individual." Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov and other top figures were detailed off to explain to crowds of Moscow factory workers that the leader whom the speakers themselves had slavishly praised and served had really been a murderous megalomaniac. Some 15,000 agitators fanned out through Stalin's homeland of Georgia, where, as First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan admitted last week, "some people" had "taken it hard" (TIME, March...
...Stalin worship, had their troubles adjusting to the new line. In satellite Poland, Communist newspapers published pictures and laudatory biographies of Polish Communist leaders executed by Stalin. Hungary's Communist Party Boss Rakosi, East Germany's Walter Ulbricht (who likened Stalin worship to the Führer cult) and Italy's Togliatti each made statements downgrading Stalin's position. In Manhattan Daily Worker Editor Alan Max asked himself aloud some surprisingly pertinent questions: "Many things bother a person like myself: Where were the present [Soviet] leaders during the period when they say that collective leadership...
Britain's New Realism, about as delicate as a cockney costermonger's anecdote, has been rated a "cult of squalidity" by some proper Britons, who think crockery should remain belowstairs. But to date it has already produced a burgeoning handful of new talent. Among Painter Middleditch's contemporaries...
Rewriting the Past. At the Congress, Nikita Khrushchev, clearly the nearest to being the new "one man," led the other bosses in condemning "the cult of the one man" and playing up the "Leninist" principle of "collective leadership" (TIME, Feb. 27). But in the long hours of speeches that followed there were interesting variations...
...preconceptions are too strong, if the reader cannot make the transfer from the unknown to supernaturalism, from alien cultures to elves and orcs, he finds the entire saga meaningless. The cult which has already surrounded the book testifies, however, to the number of readers who find the system not only credible, but often more realistic than their own perceptions...