Word: cult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cult of 'objective study' likewise cannot stand scrutiny . . . The mockery is so complete that the whole foundation of our education must now be questioned. For education has assumed that human nature is a receptacle for 'facts,' and that this diet of facts will of itself somehow lead to knowledge, and that knowledge by an even more mysterious alchemy will then become wisdom . . . Education has pinned its faith to a fictitious 'progress,' blandly believing that man is a romantic creature destined to walk the road of evolution 'more and more unto the perfect...
Frequenters of the local magazine racks have grown accustomed, I suppose, to seeing piles of little booklets devoted to the cult of science-fiction. Generally, these publications have the appeal of Western pulps, with space ships substituted for Faithful Ol' Pinto, ray-gun for the six-shooter, and a mobile-graced beany for the standard ten-gallon...
Donlan attacked "those scientific minds who advocate the overthrow of our government" as an "elite class," members of "an exoteric cult which considers itself as outside of and above the law." Donlan compared these men with the scientists who condoned Hitler's medical experiments in the concentration camps...
...Germain des Prés, on the Left Bank, long-haired men and short-haired women worked diligently to keep the cult going. Bebop boîtes, hairdos, beards, evening gowns, newspapers, cocktails, hot-dog stands became "existentialist." An under-tipped taxi driver would curse: "Espèce d'existentialiste." Existentialism became a familiar tourist attraction, like the Folies-Bergere. Sartre, increasingly successful and respectable, occasionally deplored the popularizations of his fad-he even felt compelled to move out of his favorite café, the Flore, to escape the tourists' vulgar stares. Last week existentialism took its ultimate...
...consider your article one of the finest pieces I have ever read in any magazine ... As a lawyer, I was particularly interested in the reference to Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, around whom a cult of greatness has so unjustly risen. In the history of American courts, no man's influence has been so blatantly evil. Those who have been bewitched by his pungent expressions have failed to note that no figure in the history of the American judiciary has had such a sinister influence. If his legal philosophy were ever fully accepted and translated into operation by our Government...