Word: sects
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Further, he claimed, graduate students who have experienced the drug's hallucinations and enhanced mental effects have formed an "insider" sect which views non-participants as "square." He said the program had no standards, no social usefulness, and a "perfunctory manner without an interest in what it discovers...
...corner of the cellar. When he begins to run out of breath, jazz comes on softly behind his voice, and he continues, accelerating maniacally, until the jazz drowns his voice altogether. The jazz ends abruptly. Shepherd begins again. He is the inspired kinghead of a minor and secret sect...
...Texas. As peyote, this curious compound has been used for many years; indeed, the Aztecs worshipped this plant as the chief of three great deities. More recently, the ingestion of peyote for its drug effect has spread among Indians of Mexico and the United States. There is a Christian sect (The Native American Church) based on sacramental use of peyote wafers, and there is also an impressive black market that ships quantities of the cactus to American students, beatniks, and artists...
With the army behind him, Diem could at last crack down on the Binh Xuyen and the sects. The Binh Xuyen's power was smashed when Diem closed the opium dens, gambling halls and bordellos, from which it drew its revenues, then fought the gangsters with armed force. To crush the Cao Dai and Hoa Hao, Diem sent his troops out again with orders to shoot; bullets whistled through Saigon's streets and in the delta swamps before the sect leaders caved...
...Sisters. Nineteen Shaker communities were founded, but the sect was doomed-partly by the growth of outside social services that drastically cut down the numbers of children brought to them to care for, but mainly by the Shaker birth rate of zero...