Word: cult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...political embodiment of Greek humanism was the city-state, which provided order instead of anarchy, freed the individual from the frenzied worship of nature gods, and destroyed the rigid cult of the family, including the blood feud. The major demerit was that the Hellenes soon "took to worshipping their city-states as gods, instead of treating them simply as public utilities." Inevitably, this produced the first Hellenic martyr, Socrates, who compelled Athens "to choose between respecting his conscience and taking his life...
Attitude is elusive; one instructor at Wellesley, a Harvard alumnus, characterized it as a "cult of gentility." It is manifested in rules, in curriculum, and in the faculty itself. Smoking is permitted in the halls of Administration buildings--for visitors. Again, a recent student request to go to the college PX shop, The Well, after 10:00 curfew until it closed at 10:45 was turned down. According to a member of the newspaper, the Dean of Students objected that Wellesley girls should not be "living a life of whim...
...University professor who would like very much to nag at the U.S. conscience if he knew where to look for it. It is not at the U.S. as such that Barzun fires his bullets; it is at the modern world at large-"egalitarian democracy, mass education and journalism, the cult of art and philanthropy, and the manners coincident with these...
Painters & Probers. By art, Barzun seems to mean a cult of the sensibility; by science, a mystical cult of facts; and by philanthropy, he means a kind of goofy general doctrine of charity that holds that no idea or person can be dismissed just because the idea is absurd or the person incompetent...
...catalogue for his new exhibition at Manhattan's Downtown Gallery, burly, amiable Ben Shahn, 60, himself dean of protest painters, sharply challenged the current cult of abstract expressionism. Said...