Word: cult
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...widen the road into an expressway. The solution: a pedestrian tunnel. But the project became another test of wills between Polish church and state. Bishop Stefan Barela complained that the underpass was a plot to cut off the monastery from the town and to "strike a blow at the cult of the Madonna." The tunnel, 30 ft. wide, was far too narrow for the throngs, he insisted, and its 8-ft. ceiling was too low for pilgrims' banners. After months of public denunciations and private meetings, the government agreed to fill in the unfinished tunnel, install traffic lights...
...learn obscure historical facts or to see poor folks become fabulously wealthy overnight. Big money went out with Charles Van Doren and the scandals of the '50s; there has not been a game that really tested one's knowledge since Art Fleming's Jeopardy!, a cult favorite, was canceled by NBC in 1975. Aside from two skill-testing parlor games, Family Feud and The $20,000 Pyramid, all the current shows celebrate the theater of cruelty and the entertainment values of Las Vegas. Masochistic contestants meet fourth-rate Hollywood celebrities in a neon-lit orgy of product...
...show voters regard Brown as "superficial", "opportunistic," "unreliable," and "flaky." Americans perceive Brown, despite his mainstream politics, as so far beyond the bounds of the civic religion that he could never be nominated, let alone elected. Recent events in California--the murder of two public officials in San Francisco cult in Guyana--have made the public far less indulgent of the stereotype of western eccentricity that Brown epitomizes...
...time since the height of the cold war has the cult of brute force been professed so openly." An editorial in the New York Times?'The Washington Post? In fact, the statement appeared last week in Pravda, which went on to denounce America's "unprecedented militarism" and "claims to worldwide supremacy." Adopting the time-proven tactic that the best defense is a strong offense, the Soviet press, radio and television conducted a nonstop rhetorical counterattack against mounting criticism in the U.S., Western Europe and the Muslim world of the U.S.S.R.'s invasion and conquest of Afghanistan...
...different in their approach and style than myself and Kerouac." He rejected the term modernist as "meaningless," and claimed to be part of the picaresque tradition, "very definitely." He cited Conrad, Graham Greene, Kafka, Rimbaud and T.S. Eliot among his influences. Of course, he belongs among them, no mere cult figure but an important American writer in whatever tradition you care to pigeonhole him in, a denizen of the darkness who lived what Eliot only suspected, who saw life measured out, not by coffee spoons, but "in eyedroppers of morphine solution...