Word: cult
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weekend in the late 1800s was a practice muster of local fire companies. The country has always blended its fun with self-improvement and dreaming up gimmicks large and small to help. In young democracies like the U.S., Alexis de Tocqueville wrote, "each generation is a new people." The cult of youthfulness and the idea of a fresh start have forged the national character...
...side by side with fellow "Catch a new wave"r Joe Jackson. Their first album produced a hit single on FM, "Roxanne". Their second album was a rush job, showing a respectable sense of humor and musical variation. Then, like Blondie, the Police unfortunately broke out of cult status with their third album, obscuring both where they were coming from and where they were going to. Last year's Zenyatta Mondatta was the last we'll see of unself-conscious music from the trio of Sting, Andy Summers, and Stewart Copeland...
...brainwashed the members are. Once you are caught in the snatches of the cult, you are going to find it very hard to get out. Someone is constantly with you, day and night. You cannot sleep. You cannot eat. You become part of the group. There are games like "love-bombing" which insist that you love everyone around you and hate the rest of society, particularly your parents. You are constantly indoctrinated... and eventually trapped...
...such an organization cannot be called religious. The Moonies are a modern and heartless corporation. There are hundreds of millions of dollars involved in the operations of this cult. Each of the flower-vendor members can earn well over a thousand dollars a week. As well, the young members milk their parents for money all the time. Mr. Selover is correct when he writes that the Unification Church will not adopt a fortress mentality but will instead work within the system--for it is only in the American system that such an ignominious association could operate. The Moonies feed...
DIED. Heinz Kohut, 68, controversial Vienna-born psychoanalyst who broke with Freudian orthodoxy and attracted a cult following with his "self-psychology," which insisted that the analyst should bolster a healthy narcissism in patients and not dwell on the traditional Oedipal conflicts; of heart disease; in Chicago...