Word: cult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...particularly interested in European politics, changes in the Kremlin and the future of Germany. As did the other speakers, he also ran into tough criticism of as well as praise for TIME'S reporting on these critical areas. Particular criticism came from those journalism students who upheld the "cult of suspended judgment" - trying to be objective without taking a stand on an issue. (Scott's answer: Merely reporting the facts is not enough. An understanding of the meaning behind the facts is necessary for an intelligent judgment of the news today...
...Malenkov's name was mentioned not at all. The fiction of anonymity persists. Great play was made with another phrase: "The collectivity of leadership is the highest principle of the leadership of our party [and] corresponds to the well-known statement of Marx on the harm of . . . the cult of personality." To which a skeptical reader of Russian rhetoric might answer: "All leaderships are collective, but some leaderships are less collective than others...
...Communist demon [which] is coming to be regarded as the one and only true expression of Americanism, and even of Christianity. It is proper to abhor Communism. Communism is an evil-let there be no mistake about that. But the spirit to which I refer, this new cult of negation, is something quite different...
...April 27, 1949, the Air Force blandly announced that "the possibility of some sort of strange extraterrestrial animals has also been remotely considered." Immediately, a cult of saucers worshippers arose in California...
...ideal of feminine beauty, which the white plague made current, was epitomized by Dumas fils (mourning an ex-mistress) in La Dame aux Camelias: frail, pale, hollow-eyed and languid. To be like this type, healthy and otherwise sensible young women dosed themselves with lemon juice and vinegar. The cult of pallor extended to men and crossed the ocean so that Poet Sidney Lanier was shocked by Walt Whitman's "healthy animality." Tom Moore quotes Byron before a mirror, saying: "I look pale. I should like to die of a consumption." "Why?" "Because the ladies would...