Word: cult
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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John Harvard is something of a cult figure for the Yale band as well. The tradition dictates, according to one member, that when the Bulldogs win in Cambridge, the band marches through the streets into the Yard, and the band major sits on John Harvard's face...
...personality cult has developed, but it is clear that Deng is being placed on a pedestal almost as high as the one once reserved for Mao Tse-tung. Just as the publication of Mao's Little Red Book heralded the beginning of his near deification, the release in July of Deng's Selected Works drew well-publicized congratulatory messages from across the country. Two million copies were sold on the first day, and the press later revealed that the print run had been increased to 40 million copies...
South House: The new kid on the block of Quad grills. South's grill, know as "Floyd's" has achieved almost cult status among Quad residents too cold to make the trek to upper Mass...
...bankroll for manufacture, the partners test-marketed 1,100 units in 1981. All were sold within a few weeks. Another loan from a bank manager who got hooked on the game enabled the entrepreneurs to produce 20,000 more. Word of mouth did the rest. The game acquired a cult following in Canada, and in 1982 Selchow & Righter, the venerable U.S. games company (Parcheesi), began manufacturing it in the U.S. British and Australian versions are imminent, and next year French, German, Dutch, and children's renditions will follow...
Most of all, Mao is gone. It is as if the city had been sponged of him and his "personality cult." The giant 40-foot-high portrait still hangs above the vermilion Tiananmen. But he now rests silent under a scarlet coverlet in the colonnaded mausoleum that dominates the great square...