Word: cult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shoddy Job. Unfortunately, says Bell, the modern school is of no help in providing the answer, for the school is actually contributing mightily to the current cult of childishness. Once, the school's aim may have been to "turn out men and women who could think, confident that those who were trained to think could be trusted on their own to look after problems of adjustment, individual and social; but the more modern schools go on the theory that it is their business themselves to bring about such adjustments, only secondarily to concern themselves with developing pupils...
...Shocked "Ooh." The "slaves" look with scorn on other U.S. Catholics, whom they regard as heretics for associating with Protestants and Jews. Most of them lave left their families for a semi-monastic life of prayer and preaching in Cambridge. In isolation, their cult has grown narrower in its fanaticism-and angrier at the world of unbelievers outside. Early in September, Archbishop Gushing published a Vatican decree approving his condemnation of Feeney, and church authorities are now considering a formal ban of excommunication...
When Martin grew up he became a doctor, but only as a step toward a higher vocation, which he soon began to fulfill by founding a sort of Christian religious cult of his own. When the next war came, Martin registered as a conscientious objector, and served as a medical orderly in North Africa and Italy. One night in a canteen, he had a vision of the infinite brotherhood of human souls. In obedience to it. he called on the British soldiers around him to follow him on a mission of love to the German lines. Instead, his astounded comrades...
...when Plato described Atlantis (in the Dialogues Timaeus and Critias), he was merely writing a political pamphlet about an imaginary state. His contemporaries did not take him literally, but during the Middle Ages Plato gained such enormous authority that his political fantasy was accepted as sober fact. An Atlantis cult grew, and still flourishes. The myth has even multiplied, begetting Mu (sunk in the Pacific) and Lemuria (sunk in the Indian Ocean...
Anthropologist Reichel-Dolmatoff states that a Kogi woman at night lures her husband "to lie down in the fields, threatening to cut off the soup if he refuses [TIME, July 28]." He then explains the Kogi man's aversion to sex stems from a cult of love for a world-mother spirit...