Word: cults
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That memory faded out and another took over when Saturday night's cameras cut to the sidelines for a glimpse of Bear Bryant, Alabama's supercoach. A whole cult has grown up around the Bear, and I was part of it. He was such a hero that everyone swore he could beat George Wallace if he ran for governor. And rumors held that he could walk on water. (Dime stores still sell huge posters of Bryant walking across an endless sea. The picture shows him from the back, but you can tell it's the Bear by the trademark tweed...
...Nixon has restored to the office of the presidency the true concept of that office. Perhaps for the first time since Woodrow Wilson, we have a President who does not need to rely on charisma, who has been able to overcome the cult of personality, and who has treated the office of the presidency as a true institution, not a personality extension. I am proud to stand beside him and to support him fully...
...cult contains two subcultures. The larger and more familiar group flies sophisticated sailplanes that routinely cover dozens or even hundreds of miles and soar to altitudes that may require oxygen masks. The Soaring Society of America estimates that in ten years the number of licensed sailplane pilots has grown from 5,000 to 15,000. Many of them are affluent business people...
With so much left to be done, it is sad to see the re-emergence of a cult of callousness--a sort of blase cynicism, of premature exhaustion--around Harvard. The cynicism represents, it seems to me, a case of posturing, of a stance, of an attitude that suddenly becomes "in," rather than of a "new conservatism" in any political sense that students have begun to take different positions on issues than they took in the heights--or depths--of the sixties. As always, The Crimson reflects the mood well. The ideology of the sixties Left is still there, including...
President Nguyen Van Thieu, who had backed Diem's overthrow, helped defray the costs of the commemoration with a $1,000 contribution, presumably in hopes of using the incipient Diem cult to solidify non-Communist ranks within the country. He is in no danger of being overthrown as Diem was. But growing economic problems at home, along with the continuing threat of a North Vietnamese military offensive, mean Thieu needs all the help...