Word: cults
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that he calls himself a "Marxist-Leninist," they have started reading him lectures on party discipline and warning against the "cult of the personality." Bias Roca made the point in a speech ostensibly praising a long-dead Cuban Communist Party official. The late Red hero, said Roca, "despite his enormous authority, despite his leading position within the party, gave constant evidence of strictly submitting himself to discipline. He never trusted his own decisions alone, he never believed that he alone could have the final word in all matters. He constantly consulted the committee, the organization . . ." The next night, addressing Communist...
...prominent Americans have been hated so much as Edwin McMasters Stanton, Abraham Lincoln's Secretary of War. Stanton was vilified as the man who ruined the South by championing the vindictive Reconstruction Acts. Even today, an esoteric cult of historians stoutly maintains that Stanton planned the assassination of Lincoln so that he could take over the country...
When Dorothy Baker published Young Man with a Horn (1938), the thinly disguised story of the great jazz trumpeter Bix Beiderbecke, expectations for her future ran high. The book evoked the bravura of the jazz cult with dash and devotion, if also a dash of sentimentalism. Her two subsequent novels remained merely promising. Cassandra is her long-awaited fourth novel, written 24 years after her first, and presumably a mature work. It is a crushing disappointment...
...Reds also dared to criticize Red China for not submitting to Soviet ideological supremacy, and dutifully de-stalinized their own late dictator, Khorlogiin Choibalsan (1895-1952), whose last reported resting place was a stalinesque red stone mausoleum in the center of Ulan Bator. The familiar charge: Choibalsan nurtured a "cult of personality...
...picked up the directorial baton-and fell flat on his face. Too Late Blues is a routine, B-flat movie musical in which Cassavetes can seriously claim success in only one respect: the picture will not make money. To begin with, it constitutes a tired tract for the hysterical cult of hip that preaches salvation through syncopation. The plot, moreover, is a canned arrangement played to death in a dozen previous pictures of this sort: progressive jazzbo (Bobby Darin) goes commercial; loses art, loses heart, loses girl (Stella Stevens); but in the reprise he straightens out and flies right...