Word: cult
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Kateri Tekakwitha is a good example. Her cult grew in upstate New York, where for 200 years after her death local Catholics prayed to her for intercession. But only in 1884 did an Albany priest propose her "cause" to the Vatican, with the hope of canonization. Decades passed in the gathering of evidence of Kateri's "fame of sanctity" and heroic virtues...
They define their territory and their stance in one easy lesson. This is not a band for the art school elitists or the hard-core, headbanger punks, nor one to start a new cult. This is garbage fever for the masses, and the Cramps openly invite us to break down the barriers we build up in the defense of our own musical limitations...
...stars, fire, water and earth. The founder of the Franciscan order developed a wide following during his life for his appreciation of nature's bounty. In recent times, his popularity has grown: St. Francis has been the subject of numerous movies and biographies, and became something of a cult idol for hippies in the 1960s. Now it is Pope John Paul II who has honored St. Francis. The Pope named him Patron Saint of Ecology because "he has sung stupendously the beauties of nature, considering it a marvelous gift of God to humanity...
...hallmarks. Plainly, capitalism is not working well enough. But there is no evidence to show that the fault is in the system ? or that there is a better alternative. Though neither comfortable nor easy, free enterprise contains the protean potential that will be needed in the coming diffi cult years. For all its obvious blemishes and needed reforms, capitalism alone holds out the most creative and dynamic force that any civilization has ever dis covered: the power of the free, ambitious individual...
...club of leftist clubs), and a key defendant in the 1970 "Seattle Eight" conspiracy trial. Today three of Marshall's top S.D.S. colleagues of the tumultuous 1960s are still under ground. One of them, Weather Under ground Leader Bernardino Dohrn, has become something of a cult role model for the dwindled, sullen ranks of the New Left. Nor have Marshall's Seattle Eight co-defendants lapsed into torpor suburbanus. One was jailed only two years ago for conspiracy, another died after years of ruinous drug taking and late nights, and the others tend to espouse leftist causes that...