Word: cult
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...craving that Hanson hit, or those comfy chairs, or even that useful reminder of the joys of rhyming verse, Lamont isn’t the answer to your end-of-weekend woes. Study should be study regardless of whether anyone is watching. Resist ingratiation into the cult of the Reading Room and don’t make productivity a performance...
...Setting the Record Straight Cult Expert in Japan In our NOTEBOOK item on the verdict of Aum Shinrikyo's leader Shoko Asahara [March 8], we quoted an expert on cults whom we incorrectly named as Yoshio Arita. His name is Yoshifu Arita...
...Terror Train The death sentence imposed on Japanese cult leader Shoko Asahara for the 1995 sarin-gas attack in the Tokyo subway [NOTEBOOK, March 8] brought back the horror of that assault. We covered the disaster, which caused the death of 12 and injured more than 5,500, in our April 3, 1995, issue...
...EASIER TO SHOCK AN AUDIENCE TODAY? I like to push people's buttons. I like to bother people's sacred values. It is not hard to do that with certain topics. I find the taboos of today are religion, the flag and children--the parent-child phenomenon. This cult of the child has developed, and the cult of the parent--which are to me appalling and overdone and probably dangerous for children...
SENTENCED TO DEATH. SHOKO ASAHARA, 48, former leader of the religious sect that released sarin gas into the Tokyo subway in 1995; in Tokyo. The founder of Aum Shinrikyo, a cult that combined Buddhist and Hindu philosophies, was convicted of masterminding the attack that killed 12 and injured...