Word: cult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...article charged Cherington with "contempt" for Bostonians of Irish descent and for "professional politicians," and called him "another of the cult of New Deal economists...
...down-at-heel gentry looking over a forgotten cousin who has struck it rich. Surveying its growth, Novelist Evelyn Waugh found it, for his English taste, a bit too Irish: "In New York on St. Patrick's Day . . . the stranger might well suppose that Catholicism was a tribal cult." Last week, U.S. Catholic readers of the Parisian daily Le Monde got a chance to see themselves through the unblinking eyes of a Frenchman...