Word: cults
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Epps agreed with him, saying that long years of inferior status had given Negroes a psychological need for a direct confrontation with the white power structure. But he noted that extreme groups like the Black Muslims make a cult of rebellion without accomplishing anything. He remarked that the Association of African and Afro-American Students shown similar signs of aimlessness...
...avant-gardists of the modern dance, Martha Graham has long been the Holy Acrobat. But when the State Department began sending her off on tour as an official U.S. dancer, the old esoterica was sadly diminished. Offended by the bourgeois applause, ultras in the Graham cult started casting about for a new and comfortably obscure enthusiasm. Last week Graham and her modern dance troupe returned to Broadway for their annual two-week season, and there in their tennis shoes were the strayed believers. Thanks to a congressional challenge to the wholesomeness of Graham's art, she now seemed...
...cannot market his personality, the scholar can devote himself to "the cult of tidying up," answering phone calls in the office and writing the endless letters of recommendation which, Hughes confided, "represent a serious drain on one's stock of adjectives...
...casual, generally unpolished way, Goldwater pleased his partisans by goading, in turn, the Kennedy Clan and Nelson Rockefeller. "America needs a change," he declared. "Rocking-chair leadership isn't enough. The Republican Party is a party of principle, not the captive of a clan or cult of personality. This is not a party controlled by any one man's money. It believes in an executive branch that is an equal partner, not a ruthless boss; in a judicial branch that is equal and independent, that interprets laws but does not make them...
...barricade, to use this way of expression-the way of the future, the art of the future. A revolution of intentions is beginning. No longer do we trust in the old labels, the established themes. To express ourselves! To be free, free of prejudice, free of the old cult of technique, free of everything, to be madly ambitious and madly sincere...