Word: cults
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After Marilyn Monroe's death, it might have been expected that a vast cult would develop, necrophilic and worshipful, similar to the one that lengthened the notoriety of James Dean. But the cult of Marilyn has turned out to be more esoteric. Her memory is tended by the somewhat-intellectuals. And the theme of their compassionate communions is a touching waif who was destroyed by a cruel world she never made...
...construct a new electoral platform. Slowly he rebuilt the party, collected the "Pearson team"-a brainy, intensely loyal shadow cabinet, including some of the young Liberals who propelled him into the party leadership. "There is a Pearson mystique in Canada," says a colleague, "that is something like the Stevenson cult...
...virtues does not divulge the whole of Mrs. Perkins' personality. She possesses a certain something else, a stately, august quality which is distinctly Parkinson: she has it, her husband has it, and while they've been there, Lowell House has had it. In inspires a sort of genteel personality cult and though quickly recognizable, is thoroughly indefinable...
...chief amulets of this cult is the notorious Cucumber Sandwich. Devised during World War II when the ingredients of other canapés were strictly rationed, it is now served mostly at Thursday teas. The teas, of course, are the cult's most festive rites. Here Mrs. Perkins is in her element; she can send faculty members scurrying to the kitchen for more hot water or tell the Mayor of New York that the tea is all gone without ever breaking stride. The same charm which bewitches her guests at tea is present at all the Lowell House rituals...
...wives. "It's been great fun," Mrs. Perkins says of her twenty-three years in the House, "and in many ways I am extremely sad about leaving." When Master Perkins retires from Lowell at the end of this term, he will take with him the finest priestess a personality cult ever boasted...