Word: cults
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...enveloped in a cherishing mythology. Americans, it was even said, had grown obsessively kiddified; they were child-worshipers who sentimentalized their offspring in a complacent land of Little League and Disney. Toward the end of the Eisenhower years, the literary critic Leslie Fiedler wrote a lively diatribe about the "cult of the child," which he denounced as "this most maudlin of primitivisms...
Teng Hsiao-p'ing (Deng Xiao ping) is no Shah and undoubtedly knows as much about villages and villagers as he knows about cities and technicians. The cult of Mao in its day had religious overtones, but the Chinese people on the whole seem capable of seeking happiness without benefit of revealed religion. This is what made them so interesting to philosophers of the 18th century Enlightenment. Fanaticism is not their normal state of mind. Under Mao they carried through a very considerable social revolution and the Chinese leadership in coming years is not likely to forget about it. Chinese...
...trays, calendars and T shirts. The faithful wait in line for hours to catch a glimpse of him, and the truly lucky get close enough to toss a shawl or a handkerchief in his direction. Some Westernized Iranians are not particularly impressed by this evidence of a personality cult abuilding. "We didn't take down the Shah's picture merely to put up the Ayatullah's," complained a university student last week. But many of his countrymen do not agree with this view...
...unclear whether Senator Dole will pursue his cult hearings any further. Nor has Congress given any clue as to whether it will consider legislation to attack either the questionable religious groups, or the strong-arm tactics being used against them. There is always that little problem of squaring any such attacks with the First Amendment...
...Jerusalem, which he helped found. "It's an avalanche effect," says Relativist Peter G. Bergmann of Syracuse University, one of Einstein's old collaborators. "Everyone wants to snatch a bit of reflected glory." Says Cambridge University's Martin Rees: "Einstein is the only scientist who has become a cult figure, even among scientists...