Word: cults
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...care and feeding cost up to $1.8 billion a year, which is more than the defense budget of Brazil. Yet, deep in the American psyche, there is evidently a bristling resentment of Felis domestica. This has erupted in a litter of books that celebrate a new and fast-growing cult of ailurophobia (hatred or fear of cats...
Martin ignored a subpoena to appear before a grand jury on Aug. 11, and then hatched a more outlandish version of what had happened: a black-masked member of "the Guardian Angels of the Underworld" had carried out the ambush to prevent him from exposing the satanic cult. On Aug. 17, Martin ducked another grand jury appearance-for his own safety, he said...
...days later Martin's cousin, Charles Goff, 29, swore to police that he not only fired the shots, but also made three threatening telephone calls to a Martin aide to bolster the satanic cult story. The next day Texas Rangers found Martin hiding in a stereo cabinet in his mother's house and arrested him on an old assault charge. Free on bail, Martin denies everything. The grand jury will hear more evidence this week. If Martin is charged, it will probably be with a misdemeanor. Two possibilities: reckless conduct and making a false statement to police...
Gustav Mahler may be as unfamiliar to one chunk of the population as Blue Oyster Cult is to another, but practically everybody knows what beer weekends-were-made-for and which hamburger hawkers will do-it-all-for-you. In an age of increasingly fractionated audiences for radio and records, and of a dozen or so subdivisions just within rock, jingles selling products may be America's only truly popular, all-embracing music...
...cult of the expert, checked solely by conscience--if, indeed, by that--and not by politics, spread far beyond the borders of New York. Though Progressivism made the most political hay of numerical efficiency, the obsession did not die with the movement. Robert McNamara's body counts, and indeed the entire Vietnam experience in this country, probably did more than anything to prove the futility of excessive reliance on the numbers--on the experts. Robert Moses, Doctor Moses, as he liked to be called, had all the numbers, all the plans; the political mud was never slung...