Word: cult
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...with Kandinsky at the Bauhaus and in Paris. By 1985, presumably, the Guggenheim Museum will have fulfilled its destiny as the St. Peter's of Kandinsky studies. That is fitting enough, since the museum is (so to speak) built over the ruins of a shrine that housed his cult in the 1940s. This was the Museum of Non-Objective Painting, set up and run by Solomon Guggenheim's mistress, the Baroness Hilla Rebay, who-in her dottily hierophantic devotion to the Great Artist, not to mention her purported Nazi sympathies-was for a time the Winifred Wagner...
When David Kelly founded the Hampshire College Summer Studies in Mathematics program in 1970, he probably didn't know he was about to start a cult. Or perhaps he did. He's not telling...
Although Kelly insists the Yellow Pig is not a cult, a lot of Hampshirites act as if it were. Over the years, various "counter-cults" have developed: Steve Maurer, who taught at Hampshire for two years, introduced the Yellow Pig's antithesis--the Pink Pig, which is closely associated with the number 23, and produced evidence proving the ascendancy of 23 over 17. (Adherents to the Yellow Pig consider 23 the "ickiest" number of them all.) For a while, Pink Pig t-shirts began to appear, but the era of the interloper, though still remembered, was short-lived...
...Rubik's Cube started out as a game. Then a cult developed and a rash of books told how to solve the puzzle. Now a Yale University professor is teaching a course on how to solve the multicolored cube...
...street. The drop was set off by a downbeat interest rate forecast by Henry Kaufman, the influential chief economist for the investment banking firm of Salomon Bros. Kaufman, who has built up a very good record of interest-rate projecting over the past decade, has developed an almost cult following and a strong influence on stock prices. If he predicts higher interest rates, the market tumbles. Last week Kaufman warned that "a confrontation between the credit needs of the U.S. Treasury and those of U.S. corporations is shaping up for 1982." He said that long-term interest rates will increase...