Word: cultist
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Dates: during 1932-1932
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...Briarcliff Manor, not far from Nyack where lives Oom the Omnipotent, onetime "love cultist," The Groups had an international house party. Glib, bright-eyed Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman, "soul surgeon," arrived on the S. S. Aquitania with a party of 22 "experienced" members of The Groups, many of whom had met with him at a house party in Geneva last January (TIME...
...Jean Toomer's grandfathers was Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback, a mulatto carpet-bagger who became Acting Governor of Louisiana but was refused a U. S. Senate seat in 1876. After attending the University of Wisconsin. Jean Toomer became an exponent of Georges Gurdjieff, the Armenian-Greek cultist who founded the Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man at Fontainebleau, France, and whose most famed disciple was the late Katherine Mansfield (TIME, March 24, 1930). Last autumn Disciple Toomer took a mixed party of eight, all white except himself, to a farmhouse outside Portage, birthplace of Novelist Latimer...