Word: cult
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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James Agee has become a minor cult, as well he should. But he should not be considered one of those classic romantic failures so adored by adolescents and academics. As much as most artists, he achieved what he was capable of, and it was enough. -By Melvin Maddocks
...discerning and the disputatious, who write to question such matters as Nancy Reagan's age (62) and some of the column's descriptions ("squeaky clean" sounded derogatory to fans of Singer Karen Carpenter, and esters protested a reference to Werner Erhard's movement as a "cult...
...ideas and style), Whistler was seen as an honored veteran and not an avant-garde figure; his paintings had lost whatever experimental look they once had, and were surpassed by impressionism. Curiously, his biggest influence was on writing. Poets Stéphane Mallarmé found their own cult of the indeterminate, the penumbra of experience, confirmed in his work. The Whistlerian landscape of Thames kept turning up in English poetry for another generation-not least in The Waste Land, with its "brown fog of a winter dawn" lying on London Bridge. Marcel Proust so adored him that he purloined...
...ideas on us, but he argued very persuasively," Kathy, who was often active in COCA, has perhaps the bluntest assessment: "I know some time the next year I looked back on it and wondered how I got involved in all that. It was sort of like being in a cult...
...University of Illinois engineer named Bruce Artwick squeezed all the features of a full-fledged simulator into a tiny microcomputer, thus giving the general public a chance to sit in the pilot's seat. The early Apple and Radio Shack versions of his program developed a cult following among computer hobbyists, and the 1982 IBM version soon became an industry standard. This year, when Flight Simulator II appeared on the mass-market Commodore 64 computer, the program flew to the top of software bestseller lists...