Word: cult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...want no part of the new Cult of Doom that I see rising all about us ... I would like, if I can, to help counteract the growing mood, among the people of this country, of hopelessness and futility and confusion which the Oracles of Annihilation have encouraged by their dismal words-however well-intentioned those words...
...want no part in the Cult of Doom rising about us," said David E. Lilienthal, former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, in a lecture at Symphony Hall last night. The title of his speech was "Atomic Energy for Peace," and he stressed optimism and hope in the atomic problem...
...Negro band, then starts to pour his soul into a pawnshop horn. Grown up into a hot trumpet man under the tutelage of the Negro bandleader (Juano Hernandez), he knocks around gin mills and boardinghouses in the sleazy insecurity which hounds all small-time musicians devoted to an unpopular cult. But just when Trumpeter Douglas begins to approach the'top, the film starts on its way down...
Prostrate Prisoners. On an unnamed prison island off an unnamed European country, the Governor is plotting first to seize complete power in his own country, then to reach out for the world. His natural advantages in addition to his ruthless cult of power are exceptional: charming good looks, a handsome figure, an ingratiating personality, a lucid and imaginative intelligence. But the Governor sees far beyond mere political dominion. He intends to be venerated as a god; he is training prisoners to be his disciples...
Author Warner once ended an essay called The Cult of Power with these words: "The only reply to the cult of individual or racial power and violence is the actual practice of general justice, mercy, brotherhood and understanding." The trouble with Men of Stones as a fictional elaboration of this credo is that it reaches the intelligence without ever finding the way to the heart...