Word: cults
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...codes and conventions that governed behavior in 18th century London encouraged productive political action by separating the issues from the personalities involved. With the intrusion of the self into the public domain, Sennett argues, such effective political action became more and more a thing of the past as a "cult of personality" that triumphed in the 19th century subordinated issues to the private lives of political people. Urban man began to sit and wait for the charismatic virtuoso to inspire him, or for the politician to help...
...Cult of Perón. No one expects the junta to step down soon. Eleven years of Perón's rule plus another two decades of his baleful influence shattered and paralyzed moderate political forces. Even as Isabelita awaits trial for misuse of public funds, el Lider's cult retains its mystique. "People have no confidence in parties," concedes one anti-Peronist politician. "We are not ready for elections until Peronism is dismantled and forgotten...
Major hit musicals rarely attract cult followings. Everybody enjoys them. But in the semi-hit ranks, certain shows acquire ardent admirers who tend to feel that their pet musical has certain special qualities that the general audience does not fully appreciate It may be the tuneful charm or sophistication of the score or the sentiments expressed in the book, but such a play becomes a kind of collector's item for theatrical cognoscenti...
...images go, you can't beat it: the Goodyear blimp suddenly looming large and low-much too low-over the Orange Bowl. To turn that benign and stately symbol of the country in a holiday mood into an instrument of unpredictable menace is a stroke of Pop-cult genius. If the blimp can run amuck, even in fantasy, what is there left that we can rely...
While the cult of masculine honor is giving way in Tunisia, the void may be filled all too predictably by the cult of materialism. In the modernization process it is unlikely that in Tunisia, probably the most secularized of Muslim nations, Islamic considerations will provide much competition to the seduction of the West in shaping the ultimate directions of the liberation of women, or most other trends for that matter. This is the price that many developing countries have...