Word: cult
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Over the years, Bad Religion has converted many early detractors into fans. BR has developed a substantial cult following, started its own record label and even collaborated with Noam Chomskyon an anti-Gulf War single. The Bad Religion soundis built on the sort of outrageously fast,aggressive and repetitive drum work associatedwith the early '80s Washington DC hardcore scene.The music of Bad Religion also owes a substantialdebt to, of all things, Klezmer. Klezmer wasinvented in Eastern Europe and has been kept aliveby Yiddish radio programs, bands who play barmitzvahs, and increasingly, by avant-garde jazzperformers. At its best, Bad Religion...
...controversial Christian cult which reputedly targets college students gave a formal presentation at the Cambridge Hyatt Regency near MIT yesterday...
...ceremony was drawing to a close, two police cars arrived. "Do you realize you're disturbing everybody in the yard?" the police officer said to the cult leader. The leader defended his group, claiming they were performing a religious ceremony. "People have been more rude to us than we have been to them," the cult leader said. He claimed that onlookers mooned the group in the middle of its incantations...
...Widener steps To commemorate the tradition of setting our watches back an hour, the Cult of Cronus assembled on the Widener steps at 2 a.m. Halloween morning. Holding candles and a clock drawn on a pizza box, the cult recited a chant marking the annual event. "Tick!" "Tock!" the cult members shouted in turn...
After a short reproach, the police left, and the group marched off the steps to burn its pizza-box clock. Traditionally, the cult burns its clock in front of the John Harvard statue, but as they left the library steps, one woman told her leader, "Maybe this year we should do it in the quad." Joshua D. Fine