Word: cults
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most of us just don't know the extent to which our food is tampered with and how we ourselves support this system. Food is life-and wanting natural food is not the special province of any group, cult or sect...
...such determined scramblings down the tree of life, E.M. Cioran, 59, has made himself into a kind of one-man cult of the culdesac: the king of the pessimists in a bumper year for pessimists. Cioran's recent book of essays-"fragments" he likes to call them-threatens with success a man whose first principle is to hold success in contempt. See the chapter on "Fame: Hopes and Horrors...
...described our "sexually sick culture" as based on "the inequality in economic opportunity for women" and as a "steady and demeaning cult of degrading woman to a sexual object...
...definite connection between war and sexism: "Who would go to war without a sex cult...
...LAST year or so Levi-Strauss has become a kind of cult. For Americans his structural anthropology is new, brilliant, maybe even a way out of the jumble of inexplicable data collected over the years by social science. But a more important part of his appeal is his brashness. Levi-Strauss is a theorist attempting to discover in the materials of culture the universal structures of the human mind. His objectives are just that large, and one senses he may be already part of the way there...