Word: cult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suspect of 'Communist' leanings. His preaching might fall into the category of 'unAmerican activities.' But provided He didn't clash too badly . . . He would probably be invited to speak at women's clubs, and His teaching would be regarded as a new cult worthy of the attention of 'progressive' females with nothing better...
...agreed. Like it or not, the hottest thing in contemporary French art is the stark, spiny, thinly painted work of 26-year-old Bernard Buffet (TIME, Feb. 18, 1952). Painter Buffet was almost made to order to catch the imagination of postwar France, then wrapped up in the gloomy cult of existentialism. His subject matter was skinned rabbits, sticklike nudes, grim, bare interiors. Even his inarticulateness suited the times. Said Buffet, in one of his rare statements about his own work: "I don't like to discuss the subject . . . mainly because I have nothing to say. I paint like...
...Song or a Shot. Dean Pope also gave the back of his hand to the "peace-of-mind cult." He objects to identifying Christianity with it, no matter how popular it is or how many people claim to have been helped. "The mambo is popular, and innumerable people have been helped by patent medicines, hospitals and social-work programs, but not every popular or helpful thing is to be described as Christian or presented under Christian auspices...
Dean Bundy last night criticized University students for striving after grades rather than knowledge. Speaking to freshmen at the Union, he said, "The more we can removes this success cult from every aspect of the University, the better...
...romantic figure of danger the British needed in World War I to offset the unrelieved, anonymous four-year horror of the Western Front. His saga became legend. Hailed by many as a masterpiece, his own monumental, turgid and mystic Seven Pillars of Wisdom became the bible of a widespread cult of Lawrence admirers, whose most romantic ideals were justified when their unpredictable hero renounced the world at the pinnacle of his fame to join the R.A.F. as lowly Aircraftman Ross...