Word: cult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eccentricity is frowned on at Cambridge; at Oxford it is a cult. Poetry nourishes at Oxford; philosophy finds its home in Cambridge. Oxford undergraduates have a certain brilliance; their conversation sparkles; they are intimately concerned with their inner reactions and feelings. Cambridge undergraduates are more concerned with their relations with their fellow men; they get on with the job and leave the devils, or the angels, hidden away inside...
...cult of dianetics, which was going strong a year ago (TIME, July 24, 1950), has some of the features of a new religion. Its founder, 'Science-Fictioneer L. Ron Hubbard, claimed that his "science of the mind" could cure all mental and most bodily ills, make supermen of truly devoted converts. Today, dianetics is suffering the standard fate of the cult: one of its earliest adherents has broken away and is accusing Hubbard of having strayed from the true faith...
Along with the normal hazards of sunburn, goose-pimples, stone bruises, poison ivy and chiggers, Canada's nudists share with their brethren in other parts of the world a carking problem: how to get their pictures in the newspaper, thus winning a little helpful publicity for the cult. If they show too much, the postal authorities get stuffy; if too little, the serious point about Nacktkultur may be lost...
...innovations: 1) to ditch realism for abstraction in the sets, 2) to make the stern old gods of Valhalla look less like period pieces. Designer Wieland Wagner's argument: the world has changed and so must the cult of Wagner...
...News took time out from huffing at Harry to return to a hot-weather editorial battle it has been waging for years. Subject: men's summer wear-too many, too heavy and too hot. Said the News: "We've never . . . blown our editorial horn for any nudist cult . . . Where do you put your change, cigarettes and matches? [But] we've urged outright rebellion against any and all social edicts which say a guy has to pull a hot jacket over a carcass which already, probably, is steaming like a 1908 Maxwell. Down with any heartless females...