Word: cult
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...into quitting. Universities that welcome all manner of oddball groups on campus actively seek to curb these evangelists. Critics mail out booklets and tapes denouncing them. Some defectors -- who number half the converts since 1979 -- charge that the church has done them psychological or spiritual harm. Many are crying "cult," although dropout Rick Bauer thinks "authoritarian sect" is a better label...
Recruits flock in, but critics call it an autocratic cult...
This is not a man who has grasped the concept of dead oceans. American Perot-nistas bear a superficial resemblance to the Argentine variety. What we have here is a strongman, a right-wing populist: no party, no program -- just a cult of personality. All he needs now is an Evita...
Victor Marchetti, former executive assistant to the CIA's deputy director and co-author of The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence, believes that the presence of the team on Flight 103 is a clue that should not be ignored. His contacts at Langley agree. "It's like the loose thread of a sweater," he says. "Pull on it, and the whole thing may unravel." In any case, Marchetti believes the bombing of Flight 103 could have been avoided. "The Mossad knew about it and didn't give proper warning," he says. "The CIA knew about it and screwed...
...hands of trustees appointed by Lincoln University, a small black college in Lincoln University, Pa. Since then, alumni of the school he founded in 1922, which replaced factual art history with a proto-New Age veneration of beauty, have increasingly formed a fiercely loyal and protective cult...