Word: cult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hilda Morris, and ten-year-old son David. "Frequently fog makes islands of trees, very Oriental. This dissolves into misty atmosphere and double horizons. There's a vertical and horizontal thing going on, with the trees making the verticals." But Morris punctures the critics who have made a cult of the North west's Orient-influenced mysticism: "I guess I've got a mysticism that isn't mystic. If it looks Oriental, it is because of similar environments. Remember, in the Orient nature was always the teacher...
...teacher, Bernstein is intense yet detached, dedicated yet wellrounded. He is contemptuous of the cult of "music appreciation," and thinks that love of music should be as complex and emotional as love itself. "We live in our emotions," he argues, "and that is the area a teacher must reach-and as soon as possible. If you can strike an emotional spark, then you can teach anything...
...with loss of rank and privilege, and he resigned. (He died in 1936 at the age of 56.) The air force had lost a leader but found a prophet and a martyr, and in the next two decades Billy Mitchell was a major article of faith in the new cult of air power that justified its doctrines in World...
...chief aims of President Pedro Aramburu and the officers around him-as mirrored by their own words and deeds-took firm shape last week. They intend to wipe out the cult of Juan Peron, free the economy from strangling Peronist controls and then run off fair elections. The week saw dramatic steps toward all three ends...
Nothing enrages the sophisticate more than olives, onions or other hors d'oeuvres in a martini. But a twist of lemon peel is usually acceptable. In faraway Wisconsin, the latest cult insists on an anchovy-stuffed olive...