Word: cults
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reason for such secrecy seems to be a general revulsion against the self-glorification of Kassem's four-year dictatorship. "We revolted against the cult of personality,'I explained new Foreign Minister Talib Hussein Shabib. 32. To the key question of who is boss of the new Iraq, the answer seems to be: at the moment, no one man. President Aref cannot make major decisions without the concurrence of the mysterious National Council...
...good sense to start publishing classic Negro rags like Maple Leaf Rag and Sunflower Slow Drag in 1899 when he was in late middle age; last year Morath, 36, began playing the rags on television-and has become a sort of folk hero of the spreading ragtime cult...
...making 144 aquatints for Oriental Scenery, a six-part work published between 1795 and 1808. This was followed in 1810 by A Picturesque Voyage to India by the Way of China with 50 illustrations. The influence on building, landscaping and interior decoration of these books was almost explosive. A cult of Indian architecture arose, and country seats in such unlikely places as Gloucestershire sprang up disguised as Hindu temples, inspired by the Daniells' sketches...
...World War II in the Near East, earnestly carrying out official orders to paint "with the savagery of Goya, the romanticism of Delacroix, or. best of all, to follow your own inevitable star." Mustered out, the onetime commercial artist, muralist and teacher of lettering got swept into the new cult of abstract expressionism that was rocking the world in the postwar years, and has managed to turn the style into something important and intensely personal...
...keynote. When he was awarded the commission to do our temple, he spent considerable time not only in researching the precepts of Reform Judaism, but in attending our services. So deeply did he become involved that (recognizing his ancestry) I accused him (facetiously) of starting a new cult, "Judoism...