Word: cults
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although he lived to 1961, Darwin was patently a 19th century figure whose values are closer to those espoused at the Battle of Waterloo than to those of the present. The cult of Darwinia surrounding his personal escapades almost transforms him into a character out of a P.G. Wodehouse novel. He played in the 1921 British Amateur Championship and eliminated the last American contender in the field. That same night, Darwin was accosted on a lonely street by a mysterious stranger who bellowed, "Sir, I would like to thank you for the way in which you saved your country...
...weird doctrine that the race of "white devils" had been created from blacks, and that Allah had assumed bodily form in the person of W.D. Fard, a mysterious black itinerant who preached in Detroit until he vanished in 1934. The great annual event was "Savior's Day," the cult's Christmas, which celebrated the advent of Fard...
...TIME has joined the droolers-over-Amy cult. Four years of this-and. saints preserve us, maybe eight...
...whole Nazi cult is politically impotent and dwindling in numbers, its potential for stirring hatred and creating violence remains high. "It does not take mass movements to cause trouble in terms of violence," warns Jerome Bakst, research director of the Anti-Defamation League. A handful of Chicago's self-proclaimed Nazis, who number only about 25, proved as much last June when they ignited a rock-throwing, club-wielding melee over the movement of blacks into a white community near Marquette Park. Last week a demented Nazi cultist proved again that even a single such hater can trigger tragedy...
...Other hitherto suppressed books soon followed. Teilhard became a theological sensation just as the Catholic Church was entering the period of intellectual freedom stirred by the Second Vatican Council of 1962-65. Since then, the Teilhard boom has waned considerably, though he continues to have a strong following-a cult, some would say -in many areas, notably France...