Word: cults
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cult of a dying God, although rooted in error, is a good sign. It is the first indication that man is at last willing to recognize and become accountable for his secular responsibilities. The problems of man on earth are within human powers to solve. Reliance upon the tenuous assistance of a celestial company can only dilute man's efforts and impede progress. It has been said, however, that God must be invented. If this is true, as it probably is, let's stop trying to invent the wrong kind. Above all, let's understand that...
...best tight-lipped Scotland Yard tradition, declined to say. Nonetheless, every reporter on the scene was busy trading rumor and theory. Last week an R.A.F. Canberra was called in to take aerial photographs of the grave sites. Newsmen promptly asked Detective Superintendent Arthur Benfield whether some kind of black cult could have buried its victims in a magic pattern or symbol, visible only from the air. "I like black magic," Benfield parried, "but they tend to make me put on weight." Black Magic is a well-known brand of English chocolates...
...return, the Kremlin demands the imposition of a Soviet-style political rule on Cuba, the institutionalization of the regime, an end to the "cult of personality," even coexistence with the U.S.-up to a point. As one U.S. Castrologist says, "Castro will never become the apostle of peaceful coexistence. Yet it does seem clear that he is subject to Soviet pressure and has no choice other than to accept it." The refugees and Che Guevara are two sources of acute embarrassment to Castro, and therefore to Moscow...
...foursome must face lesser issues: for instance, how to keep Ringo from the clutches of an ineffectually diabolical oriental cult, a mad scientist armed with a portable model of Goldfinger's lazer, and Roger the man-eating tiger. The ceremonial ring of this cult, the Kaili (pronounced kah-ee-lee), is stuck on the fourth finger of Ringo's right hand, and without the ring the Kaili can't continue their sacrifices. Their victims, by the way, all beautiful young girls, are painted bright red before they're slaughtered. This crazy scientist thinks he can rule the world with...
...World, among many others, the heavenly host could hardly muster enough worshipers to go around. So George, an itinerant lawn mower and hedge clipper from Georgia, settled for an apprentice apostleship - a "God in the Sonship Degree" - with Father Jehovia, a former Pittsburgh steelworker who had a cult in Baltimore...