Word: cults
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...talks among several of those newspapers come to pretty much the same thing. The publishers need desperately to cut production costs through automation. But they are bedeviled by a powerful, medieval-minded printers' union local whose attitude towards automation ranks roughly with the intellectual attainments of a mystery cult. Last week the union, in its misguided zeal, very nearly ran one of the publishers out of business...
Last week Moscow revealed it was even planning to reopen the ornate marble Stalin Museum in Gori, the dictator's birthplace in Georgia, where dust has been gathering on the mementos of his "personality cult" since the museum was closed...
Edith and her younger brothers, Osbert and Sacheverell thereupon established a literary cult of three, "the Sit-wells." Edith was its high priestess, and in preparation for the part she fitted herself from head to foot with psychological braces: floor-length gowns cut from upholstery material, turbans and toques and tippets of excited hue, finger rings containing chunks of aquamarine the size of duck eggs. In full regalia, she looked like Lyndon B. Johnson dressed up as Elizabeth...
...SULLIVAN SHOW (CBS, 8-9 p.m.). An unlikely blend of cult and culture features Rock 'n' Rollers Petula Clark and The Beach Boys, plus Ballet Stars Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev...
During the war, Murrow hired a talented broadcasting staff: Eric Sevareid, Howard K. Smith, William Shirer, Charles Collingwood. His generosity to the people who worked for him was legendary, and around the networks something akin to a Murrow cult was formed. Eventually one CBS man, who had had enough, organized a Murrow Ain't God Club, and Murrow himself applied for charter membership...