Word: cult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cult has arisen in the U.S. under the name of dianetics, meaning...
Full Appreciation. The Citizen's story, based on an interview with the dowager Duchess of Hamilton,* was taken from the London weekly Psychic News, a leading publication of Britain's spiritualist cult. A longtime acquaintance of the bachelor Prime Minister and an ardent spiritualist herself, the duchess declared that King "fully appreciated the spiritual direction of the universe and was always seeking guidance for himself in his work...
...went running from one analyst to another. Eventually, he tried to get Dorothy to go to an analyst. She refused, largely because of the cost, and concluded: "What it might do for me was less important than the fact that it would initiate me into the cult...
...Cult Talk from the Colonel. In all this, Hemingway, at his best one of the few great writers of his generation, gives his admirers almost nothing to cheer about. Occasionally, as when he describes a duck shoot, his writing has flashes of its old, matchless exactness. However thin his story, he keeps it in motion and even invests it with a sense of potential explosion, though the explosion never comes off. The famed Hemingway style, once a poetic blend of tension and despair, is hardly more than a parody of itself. The love scenes are rather embarrassing than beautiful...
While it is probable that there are people who make a cult of dianetics, that fact is irrelevant. The only issue is whether or not it works toward making people more happy and more sane . . . Sane people do not belong to cults . . . We agree that Hubbard makes too many wild generalizations . . . But if dianetics works, what is now hyperbole may become cold fact...