Word: cult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...yourself cult are such bigwigs as U.S. Steel Vice President David Austin, who has a two-room, $5,000 woodworking workshop packed into his Pittsburgh apartment; former Secretary of State Dean Acheson, who makes his own furniture; TV and Radio Luminaries Desi Arnaz, Edgar Bergen and Fibber McGee, who spend their spare time puttering around with shelves and kitchen cabinets; Movie and Recording Stars George Montgomery, Perry Como, Dan Duryea and Jane Russell, who do their own handiwork, build boats and furniture; the Strategic Air Command's General Curtis LeMay, who is currently helping fellow airmen rebuild a private...
...marred by Elizabeth's dedication to her first love, "this wretched novel-I'm so heavy with it, I feel sometimes as if I could scarcely drag myself upstairs." Stephen not only strays into an illicit affair, but also dabbles in homosexuality. Elizabeth, who makes a cult of "understanding," forgives...
...strange uses to which he occasionally puts history. Castigating the commercialism of Christmas, and defending Scrooge to the last, he wrote; "'Humbug' was a less than adequate comment on the Christmas saturnalia.... What, one may ask, but a sense of social responsibility could have inspired Scrooge to question the cult of Christmas when there were such goodies for manufacturer and tradesman and banker in Santa's pack...
Kershaw and your fine article on his church's encouraging stand in regard to the growing "cult of the dead" . . . Kershaw's concern is shared by Christian leaders across our nation...
...them also in their 20s They listened in hushed silence, with half-closed eyes, while the music tumbled along. Like the musicians, the crowd talks a new lingo. Instead of "dig that crazy riff," the new generality is "listen to those zsounds." Rather than admire strange chords, the cult discusses "playing a line." Everybody is aware of "healthy music" and "new conceptions...