Word: cults
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...orbit and edging closer to Russia. To show that independence, North Korea became the first Communist country to offer to send troops to North Viet Nam to aid Ho Chi Minh; Ho declined, except for accepting some 50 North Korean pilot instructors. Kim has built around him self a cult of personality that is exceeded in the Communist world only by Mao Tse-tung's, and he personally sets the tone of toughness and arrogance that shows up so regularly in North Korea's dealings with the rest of the world...
When Frank Lausche was mayor of Cleveland in the early '40s, he sculpted his political totem in the form of a mugwump and named it antiboss. Through five terms as Governor and two as U.S. Senator, the conservative-minded Democrat was well served by his cult of independence, although party leaders from the White House to the Ohio state committee were frequently and understandably distressed...
...eventful century to be exceptional in. The hundred years witnessed the French Revolution, the comet streak of Napoleon, the expanding British Empire abroad, the Industrial Revolution at home. In art, the era was marked by the emergence of Romanticism, that peculiar cult of the divine in nature, the grotesque, the bizarre, the irrational and the emotional...
...contradiction in the American ethos: it commands men to seek an abundance of worldly goods, he says, at the same time that it warns them that the search will corrupt their souls. When he majored in English literature at Columbia University, for example, he remembers being confronted by the cult of failure that imbued most of his fellow students. They felt that while sex was a natural and admirable passion, a hunger for worldly success was ignoble. For a star student who wanted to be a great and famous poet, that attitude quite naturally caused some troubling guilt feelings...
...Washington, equipped with flashing red lights that summon him to the White House. But the shared anxieties of state soon give him a case of galloping paranoia, and as the President's analyst comes unglued, the movie swings off on a broad, bawdy, satirical spoof of such U.S. cult objects as secret-agentry, hippiedom, and the supposedly happy New Jersey household where Dad has his "car gun" and his "house gun," Mom takes karate lessons, and Sonny taps the family phone with his Junior...