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...Believers, a movie doing its best to defy description at any length, has some potential in this regard. It posits a Caribbean voodoo cult that offers unlimited worldly power to people willing to sacrifice their young sons in its rituals. And it brings a newly widowed father (Martin Sheen) and his son (Harley Cross) into menacing proximity with the evildoers. A well-made horror film would focus tightly on the son's menaced innocence and force us to share the father's fears as the portents of doom gather about him, his ferocity when at last he must defend...
...book is a critique against the cult of expertise [in the administration] that tells people you can't get involved because these people know more than you do," he says. "But there is no lord-serf mentality, students can get involved...
...Cult of Expertise...
Harvard's Coles senses a turning from the success cult among many college students. "Right now there are almost 1,000 ((Harvard)) students doing volunteer work with the elderly or with prisoners, or as tutors for children," Coles points out. He regards this as a hopeful sign of "decency, compassion and sensitivity to others, as well as to one's own needs." Some graduate students in professional schools, on the other hand, still seem preoccupied with their personal ambitions. In an effort to encourage moral inquiry, Coles taught a special ethics class at the business school this spring, using characters...
Almost at the End has a way of passing smoothly through the ideological looking glass. What seems to be the cult of personality on one side appears as celebrity on the other. Perhaps even legend...