Word: cult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Zanuck runs the weekend party with the same steely control he uses at the studio. He refuses to play any game at which he does not excel. Since Playwright-Scripter Moss Hart introduced him to croquet, he has made it a cult, has turned his lawn into one of the world's best-kept croquet courts, complete with floodlights...
...built their temples encircling wells and pools, filled them with carvings of marble and later with bronzes. One of the earliest and largest works in the show, 17 inches tall, looked like a cross between a double-bladed ax-head and a woman, probably represented the mother goddess whose cult once encompassed the Mediterranean world. Later representations kept the same silhouette but added more human details: a huge head balanced on a towering neck and a cloak spread to resemble wings...
When I first came to College, the cult of Copey was already firmly established. He was already acting on the assumption that teaching is not the handing down of knowledge from a platform to an anonymous mass of note-takers, but it is the personal encounter of two individuals...
...these recondite fields will find their reading boiled down to generalizations which are part routine observation, part unbending classification. Those who are not so well read will flee to the mercifully straight evidence of more self-circumscribed historians to escape such tortured, huffy judgments as this one on "the cult of irrationality" (in literature, Hemingway, Faulkner, et al.) : "Its inspiration was science, and it raised the question whether any philosophy could be longer tolerated in a universe wholly without meaning and as indifferent to any meaning that the paltry mind of man might read into it as man himself...
...essential for the health of the republic; and each forever opposed to the other. It is doubtful it in all their lives they could have found one point of agreement, except the need for American independence. They wore such perfect opposites that to this day most Americans make a cult of one or the other; few are able to do justice to both...