Word: cults
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the Revolution came he was a big man. He corrected Thomas Jefferson's rhetorical Declaration of Independence, went to France as Commissioner, crowned his career by persuading France to recognize U.S. independence (March 20, 1778). In France he became the rage, his plain, shrewd honesty a cult. Turgot wrote a verse about him: Eripuit coelo fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis-"He has snatched from heaven the thunderbolt and the scepter from tyrants." Ladies kissed him. Said he: "Somebody, it seems, gave it out that I lov'd Ladies; and then everybody presented me their Ladies (or the Ladies presented...
...Smilovits, second violin, Sandor Roth, viola, Imre Hartman, 'cello. They played in the Budapest Royal Opera until the outbreak of the 1919 Revolution when they retired to a distant Hungarian village, devoted themselves for two years to the cult of chamber music. Now the Lener is one of the world's first string organizations. In Manhattan last fortnight its tender, lush playing of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven won noisy approval from the audience, superlatives from critics; made recent performances by the London String Quartet seem over-fastidious, bloodless by comparison. The Roth Quartet, however, also from Budapest, remains for most...
...Cults. Belonging to a cult is an evidence of abnormal mentality, found Smith's William Sentman Taylor. Belonging "reveals simplicity and mental inertia, the tendency to follow leaders and crowds, lack of critical faculty, especially experimental...
Having just administered a mild rebuke to the Germanic cult of Nudism (TIME, July 1), long-faced William Ralph Inge, Very Reverend "Gloomy" Dean of St. Paul's, appeared last week as leader of a men's dress reform movement-a group of churchmen, actors and professional men militating for less and more beautiful clothes...
...editorialized: "Right here in Moscow! With the All Union Atheist Convention just ended and the delegates not yet back home- with the Soviet Congress not a month ago having passed a resolution limiting religious propaganda-and what do we see? An incredible proceeding-a mass Baptism by a religious cult in the Moscow River- in the heart of the proletarian section of the city-under the very walls of the Triangle Brewery!! [Such things are] incredible! . . . Inexplicable! . . . Intolerable...