Word: cults
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...result of being a crisis-oriented organization, Afro leadership was primarily a personality cult. The president articulated the prevailing mood within an organization whose ideological position was determined by the nature of the crisis. Many black students have argued that Afro's effectiveness is minimized because it must include a diversity of political ideologies...
...cult of madness, the far-out wing of Dionysus, has passed its judgment on reason more harshly than Nietzsche could have foreseen; but the time is coming when judgment must be passed on the Dionysiacs themselves. The irony is that as absolutes, Reason and Unreason commit the same mistake. The ideology of Reason was an attempt to escape human complexity by rising above it. The ideology of madness is an attempt to escape by plunging beneath it. Impulse to action-no hesitation in between, no regret afterward-is the romantic dream of those who envy animals and madmen...
...gradually change and, thank God, so does social consciousness; sisterhood is expanding to embrace over half of mankind. A new magazine for women, "Ms.", has just made its debut. These days the fact that it is written, published and edited by women, and headed by no less of a cult heroine than Gloria Steinem, imbues the whole thing with a bit of chic. Men as well as women have been paying $1.50 for the privilege of glancing through the shiny red spring preview issue emblazoned with an eight-armed blue woman. And discussions of it have begun to float around...
...Villeneuve when he was an interior decorator, took his new-found charge to a hairdresser friend and had her shoulder-length blonde tresses snipped to boy's length-or the length that boys used to wear their hair. A photographer was called in, and the rest is pop-cult history-the modeling, the magazine covers, the international celebrity whirl. Twiggy was the image of the decade, and Justin de Villeneuve was something of a miracle maker. "I didn't know anything or anyone in the fashion business," he proudly recalls. "Everybody kept telling me I couldn...
...Medvedev was motivated neither by disillusionment with the Bolshevik experiment nor by a desire to discredit the present regime. What he wanted, instead, was to enlighten fellow Soviet Communists about 50 years of their own history and thereby keep the study of "that prolonged disease known as 'the cult of personality' " from being monopolized by bourgeois historians and anti-Communist propagandists. "It is Communists," he writes, "who should be the strictest judges of their own history." He began his work in the thaw that followed Stalin's death. When he was finished twelve years later, the authorities...