Word: cults
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there any hint about Brezhnev's eventual successor. The cult of personality that surrounds the ailing leader may have reached its apogee at the congress. But his iron grip on the helm may doom the Kremlin to a nasty power struggle after his passing. "They are postponing the day of succession to the point that it will now be a blowup, rather than a gradual shift," predicts William Hyland of Georgetown's Center for Strategic and International Studies...
Television's personality cult, though it has enriched him, troubles Cronkite. The inflated salaries of anchormen, when compared, he says, with those of "print journalists who for heaven sakes are as good or vastly better," clearly reflects marketable personality. His defense is a little pat: "Compared to rock-'n'-roll singers, we ought to make more than we make. Compared to teachers and newspaper journalists, we're vastly overpaid." He adds: "I don't even like looking at tapes of myself. I probably could improve my performance immensely if I studied what...
...anyone who knows the concrete reality of the Hindu religion--the disastrous consequences of the cult of the cow, advocated even by Gandhi, of the caste system impossible to break down by any legislation, of the shocking superstition and so on--cannot regard things as equal, and it may perhaps dawn upon him up to a point what Christian faith can mean for men by way of enlightenment and liberation...
...Kung honestly believe that by showing us what he arrogantly considers the "disastrous consequences" of other religions, he will convince us of the righteous claim of the Christian God? Are the consequences of the cult of the cow any more disastrous than the consequences of Christian Crusader zeal? This can hardly be a "rational" proof for the existence...
...beautiful younger sister turned into a cyclops and a lesbian by a stint in a Manhattan art studio, and a grand-niece (or was she a great niece, the 81-year-old was never quite sure) who died in a Jonestown-style massacre of a Children of God cult in California. Catholic exorcism, a medical expedition through British-occupied South India, a head-to-head encounter with the Nazis and their concentration camp abominations are a sample of Toomey's sorties into the world outside his novels and his bedroom...