Word: cults
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...says he will decide on whether to grant University recognition to a student bible study group affiliated with the Boston Church of Christ (BCC). For the past several months the Committee on College Life (COCL) has debated and finally deadlocked on whether to condone a student arm of the cult-like group on campus...
According to cult experts, many BCC converts come from religious backgrounds and are homesick for the community and family they left behind. Many are lonely and are flattered by the overwhelming attention given to them by BCC members...
Critics of the church have said it uses cult-like tactics to recruit new members on college campuses...
...know if I'll inherit his cult following--after his term ended in January, several anxious readers called to find out what had happened to him, one even to find out his post-graduation plans--and I doubt my face plastered on page 3 every week will jump start as many hearts...
DIED. PATRICIA HIGHSMITH, 74, author of dark and psychological thrillers that attracted a cult following; in Locarno, Switzerland. Born in Texas and educated in New York City, she went to Europe to lead a reclusive life after the success in 1950 of her first novel, Strangers on the Train, which Alfred Hitchcock made into a movie. Highsmith's most famous character was Tom Ripley, an opportunistic and amoral gentleman-murderer. DIED. DONALD PLEASENCE, 75, chameleon-like British character actor who could be meek or malevolent in his stage and screen roles; in St.-Paul-de-Vence, France. Pleasence first gained...