Word: cults
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...abuses and to warn, in terms alternately playful and despairing, that a culture so heedless of its language is headed toward a state of corrupt, Orwellian gibberish These writers have found a responsive audience; people obsessed with good English almost enjoy the feeling that they belong to an embattled cult. NBC Commentator Edwin Newman's Strictly Speaking, a catalogue of ugly Americanisms and verbal atrocities, was 26 weeks on the bestseller lists. A Pulitzer prizewinning writer, Jean Stafford, has been conducting a crusade of sorts against what she sees as the encroaching barbarism of inexact and fraudulent language...
...wooing as many of Tito's numerous would-be successors as possible. Rumania presents them with a far trickier problem. Ceauçescu is a healthy 57 and may well be around for some time. To be sure, he has his internal enemies, who resent his "personality cult," his nepotistic elevation of his wife and son to important positions and his austere economic policies. On balance, however, Ceauçescu remains well entrenched. The Soviets tried at least once to penetrate the Rumanian army and encourage anti-Ceauçescu elements; but the effort ended in failure and embarrassment...
...does Peter Fonda get himself into these things? He and his buddy Warren Gates-reunited again after Fonda's own The Hired Hand (1971) -appear as vacationers run afoul of witchcraft out in the Texas boonies. Members of a cult that plays footsie with Satan dress up in hooded sheets and build a bonfire near a gnarled old tree. Then they get right down to business and sacrifice a victim. This gives the boys across the ravine-Fonda and Gates-a mighty eyeful and a good scare. They climb back aboard their $36,000 motor home and hightail...
...churchmen had either given information to the CIA or received money from it for propaganda purposes. Most of the charges came from two articles, distributed by the National Catholic News Service, written by an inveterate CIA foe, John D. Marks, author with Victor Marchetti of The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence (TIME, April...
...simply another bogeyman that people love to fear, like the Red Scare and UFO's of the fifties. Although shark fever certainly has become a cult as some pendent entrepreneurs will swear to by the burgeoning market for shark's tooth pendants and spin-off products like posters, T-shirts and beach towels...