Word: cults
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seldom drinks except when occasions like a promotion, new baby or visiting dignitary call for everyone to knock back a Scotch." Pilots are rarely publicized, even though a ranking ace has now shot down eleven Arab planes. The reason for anonymity is not so much to prevent any personality cult as it is to keep the Arabs from learning who the aces are. During the '67 war five Israeli pilots were killed by Arabs after bailing out of crippled planes over enemy territory; recently another pilot crashed trying to ride his disabled ship back toward Israel rather than risk parachuting...
...anger, L.B.J. charged that some of the holdovers from the Kennedy days "undermined [Johnson's] Administration, and bored from within to create problems for us, and leaked information that was slanted and things of that nature." He said he did not know if there was any anti-Johnson "cult," or if it had been led by Robert Kennedy. Who were the villains? Johnson would not say. Presumably they were members of the White House staff rather than the Cabinet. Johnson probably had Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and Richard Goodwin in mind. Their offense was reported disloyalty to L.B.J. and criticism...
...Tools. Piene's own inflatables are an effort to get art out of the cult of the unique, ownable object, and away from an art market whose dealings he sees as mere fetish mongering. He wants to change art into a system of total environments, which can be enjoyed but never possessed-as a sunset is unpossessed. "I want to make art as monumental as nature," he says. His sculptures are meant to exist on equal terms with Pittsburgh's buildings, bridges and night...
...Lenin Lives!" is an incantation that has been ritualistically repeated in Russia since his death in 1924; during this centennial year, the official worship of the Lenin cult has approached religious delirium. The Russian penchant for excesses aside, the existence of such a mystique should hardly surprise the West. Every nation requires what sociologists term a charter myth, meaning a founding father and a founding ideology. In the Soviet Union, the need for a charter myth has been particularly insistent. The Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 attempted to destroy every traditional institution-political, religious and economic-that had held Russia together...
...private farming, bewildered by Castro's wild-eyed barbudos, and appalled by Che's adventuristic forays in Latin America. Although he took a certain satisfaction in being revered as the Marx of the 20th century, Lenin was a man of personal modesty; he might well consider the cult of Chairman Mao a trifle excessive. He would be contemptuous of the intellectual poverty of his successors in the Kremlin, and despise their grossly simplistic reiterations of his ideas. Their chauvinism and anti-Semitism would enrage him. The expansion of Communist systems to more than one-third of the globe...