Word: cult
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...immensely popular professor who is best known for teaching the core course "Historical Studies A-12: International Conflict in the Modern World." He was described in the 1993 Confidential Guide to courses as "godfather and possessor of the most dedicated cult of personality since...
...miles away, and the opportunity, increasingly, to meet (and mate) with visitors from Toronto and Madrid. Fidel Castro, if only out of shrewdness, has decreed that no school or street may be named after the living (hence Che Guevara is ubiquitous), and insofar as he has developed a personality cult, has done so mostly by default: revealing almost nothing about himself, and letting speculation do the rest. Where North Korean radios are fixed so as to receive only one (government) channel, Cuban radios are, willy-nilly, open to the world...
...problem is of frightening magnitude: 2,000 teenagers commit suicide each year, and for every suicide, there are up to 350 failed attempts. "In an age where the cult of youth is so valued, emulated and pursued," notes psychiatrist Andrew Slaby, "we have been unable to respond to our children and teens when they are in the greatest pain." Slaby's No One Saw My Pain: Why Teens Kill Themselves (Norton; 208 pages; $23), written with Lilli Frank Garfinkel, is a canny and compassionate attempt to make, and help others to make, such a response...
PAUL AUSTER, 47, HAS won a cult following in the U.S. and occasional best- seller status in Europe by playing new tricks with established literary forms. He mixes some of the experimental whimsy of a Borges or a Calvino with the narrative drive that made old-fashioned stories so appealing in the first place. When he riffs on detective fiction, for example, as he does in the novels that constitute his New York Trilogy -- City of Glass (1985), Ghosts and The Locked Room (both 1986) -- he sees to it that readers craving mystery, as well as or instead of Postmodernist...
Cometbus is a case in point. A hand-collated zine with a cult following, it recounts the travels, incidents and imaginings of Aaron, an American drifter who wanders the contemporary landscape in search of adventure, both ordinary and profound. With more than 30 issues published in 12 years, Cometbus is considered a classic in this subterranean world. Like many zines, it is filled with words. Issue No. 30, for instance, is 82 pages of pure print, sometimes crawling off the page. It contains this paean to punk love: "Punk rock love is . . . looking at her tattoos while she's asleep...