Word: cultishness
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...ceased to exist as we knew it—a major sports league that, now mired in a billionaires’ lockout, once owed its wild popularity to a cultish blue-collar ethic...
...High Fidelity, a book cherished by cultish and frequently depressed music lovers, narrator Rob Fleming posits the question: “Which came first, the music or the misery?” and muses further: “Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands, literally thousands of songs about heartbreak, rejection, pain, misery and loss. Did I listen to pop music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to pop music...
...ceremony—which has become an object of cultish delight for audience members—showcases a dizzying sequence of mock tributes and absurd skits, monitored by its mascot Ig: a bespectacled, nearly nude bald man painted silver from head to toe who wandered around carrying a flashlight. The evening also featured genuine Nobel Laureates. Harvard chemistry laureates Dudley R. Herschbach and William N. Lipscomb, as well as physiology or medicine laureate Richard Roberts, presided over the ceremony, leading everything from a can-can dance to a Karaoke rendition of “Can’t Take...
...they are firmly seated around a dinner table, their focus immersed in the performances and the improvement of their as yet imperfect accents. For the members involved in this production, there is a time for inanity and a time for gravity, and amidst the flurry of vaguely cultish behaviors, they find that clear transition...
...bathtub vodka. Aside from the cost and inconvenience involved, returning the artifacts would deprive Harvard of one of its most distinctive charms. And did the Eastern patriarchs expect Lowell’s corps of dedicated, if a bit eccentric, klappermeisters to just pick up and find a new weirdly cultish pseudo-extracurricular? With all due respect, fathers, if you want some bells, I hear there’s a really great Salvation Army Santa Claus playing the Pit this week...