Word: cult
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...autobiographical novel about an English boy's coming of age in Shanghai during the World War II Japanese occupation, was followed last year by Steven Spielberg's acclaimed screen adaptation. Thanks to this double-barreled triumph, Ballard has been transformed from a well-kept cult secret into something resembling a household name, with the luxury and burden of knowing that his next book would generate widespread curiosity among a general audience. The Day of Creation, his eleventh novel, has finally arrived, and no fans, old or new, are likely to be disappointed...
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...know it Harvard, with its thousands of students and staff, will ever be able to adequately fulfill the need for community among students who fall prey to cult groups. But as long as that need goes unfullfilled through more conventional channels, Harvard will continue to be a fertile hunting ground for the Bible-toting suppliers of instant friendship and easy answers...
Anthropologist Stan Binstead is en route from New England to the African bush to search for a lion-worshiping cult. In London a friend dismisses the sect as "just an old-fashioned protection racket." Stan insists it could be the start of a new religion. Ordinarily, the safari would also enable Stan to indulge his favorite pastime, philandering, but his drab wife Millie insists on coming along. In Rachel Ingalls' tale of transformations, the ill-used wife falls in love with a dashing game warden who is believed to possess the qualities of the lion he once killed...
...Pittsburgh's Carnegie-Mellon University, English Chairman Gary Waller assigns his classes the recent cult film Blue Velvet for comparisons with works by T.S. Eliot and William Butler Yeats...