Word: cults
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cult flourished while he lived. Now it has been strengthened by his death. Bruce Lee, the Galahad of the Orient, died last year at age 32, having made a string of Kung Fu epics on the cheap in Hong Kong. At first, the Lee movies were intended for local consumption only. But a few found their way to the U.S., a TV series called Kung Fu caught on, and the martial-arts imports have grossed some $12 million at U.S. box offices...
Despite his fire-eating anti-Israel rhetoric, Arafat in private is quiet, almost self-effacing. He seldom talks about himself or his past life, largely, it seems, because he wants to avoid creating a personality cult. Within Al Fatah and the P.L.O., he has no close-knit circle of advisers or a kitchen cabinet. At staff meetings he solicits opinions from everyone, picking and choosing from the advice given him. Compared with Egypt's expansive President Sadat or even with the zealous George Habash, Arafat has little in the way of charisma, but he can inspire devotion nonetheless. In part...
...Fellows--journalists spending a year taking courses at Harvard--were to have three guests this week: Daniel Ellsberg '52, the one-time Rand Corp. analyst who released the Pentagon Papers; William E. Colby, director of the Central Intelligence Agency; and Victor Marchetti, co-author of "The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence...
Colby is the second of three guests invited to offer off-the-record answers to Nieman Fellows' questions about American intelligence-gathering. The others are Daniel Ellsberg '52 and Victor Marchetti, co-author of "The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence...
Excessive as it seems, this flamboyant life-style and mandatory adulation are not necessarily all an egregious ego trip. By making himself the center of a national personality cult, Mobutu has succeeded in forging an unprecedented degree of unity among the nearly 200 tribes speaking more than 75 different languages that make up the former Belgian Congo's population. In 1965 when Mobutu, then an army commander, led the bloodless coup that deposed President Joseph Kasavubu, the country had endured five disastrous years of anarchy, civil war and bloodshed. Although rich in natural resources, Zaire was totally unequipped...