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...flyers, but not as severely as in the past. A master who makes the new technique appear almost graceful is Toni Nieminen, the 16-year-old Finn favored for gold on both the normal and large hills. He will be challenged by a trio of V-jumping Austrians. The cult figure Edwards, however, won't be flapping at Albertville; he was left off the British team, a move he attributes to "politics...
...possible explanation for the cult of youth and the heightened fear of death is the secularization of society. A collective emotional belief in immortality is no longer a part of mainstream culture as it was for earlier generations...
...went when Jeffries, echoing other Black luminaries who see themselves as cult hero-victims oppressed by a racist media, dismissed Crimson editor J. Eliot Morgan's charge that Jeffries threatened his life in an interview: "He never had an interview," he said...
Since our newfound sensitivity decrees that only the victim shall be the hero, the white American male starts bawling for victim status too. Hence the rise of cult therapies teaching that we are all the victims of our parents, that whatever our folly, venality or outright thuggishness, we are not to be blamed for it, since we come from "dysfunctional families." The ether is jammed with confessional shows in which a parade of citizens and their role models, from LaToya Jackson to Roseanne Arnold, rise to denounce the sins of their parents. The cult of the abused Inner Child...
...lost black achievement; Imhotep, the genius who invented the pyramid as a monumental form in the 3rd millennium B.C., was black, and so were Euclid and Cleopatra in Alexandria 28 dynasties later. Blacks in Egypt invented hieroglyphics, and monumental stone sculpture, and the pillared temple, and the cult of the Pharaonic sun king. The habit of European and American historians of treating the ancient Egyptians as other than black is a racist plot to conceal the achievements of black Africa...