Word: cults
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...same thing in Bihar, his home state. The demonstrations led to riots, and Mrs. Gandhi appealed to J.P. to call them off. He refused. When Railways Minister Lalit Mishra was assassinated on a visit to Bihar last January, the Congress Party accused Narayan of unleashing a "cult of violence, intimidation and coercion...
...seems Elton and Bernie, in their eagerness to sell themselves simple, are probably selling themselves short. Their ballads have often been far more original than their critics have cared to admit. Candle in the Wind, for example, is both a comment on the Marilyn Monroe cult and a tribute to the confused, touching woman who caused it. Rocket Man is a sweet conceit in which the writers conjure up for us what the real-life astronauts never seem to have: the feeling of anxious sadness that must attend exceedingly rapid passage from familiar earth into the dark, cold reaches...
Among the more inspired bits of rhetoric was Anthropologist Edmund Leach's charge that anti-Marketeers were misty-minded isolationists who showed "the same degree of contact with rational probability as a New Guinea cargo cult." On the other side, angry leftist Playwright John Osborne denounced the EEC as "the last desperate dream of dull, dim tradesmen without vision, imagination or self-respect, feeling for life or history...
...seems, at first glance, an odd candidate to be the object of a cult. The nation is exhausted by its Indochina war. He was in the White House during another bitterly debated Asian conflict. Détente remains the Administration's diplomatic goal. He was a general in the cold war. Politics is perhaps the most discredited profession in the country. He knew no other way of life...
...compound this regressive aspect of his policy, Kissinger has made a conscious effort, seemingly successful, to establish a cult of personality intertwined with the negotiations. Both sides feel, at this point, that Kissinger is indispensible to the talks. In essence, all the keys are in his pocket; neither Arab nor Israeli has had anything but dealings with Henry Kissinger since the end of the October War. In the end, his effort to be the mortal who moves mountains can only lead to continued strife. By now, twenty-seven years after the first Arab-Israeli war, the warring parties should...