Word: cult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...painter, a movie star whose haircut and clothes are ardently aped by teen-agers from Tokyo to Nagasaki, and the most sensationally successful author in the nation, with four bestselling novels to his credit. Beyond all this, Ishihara is the idol and godhead of a flamboyant and far-flung cult whose youthful excesses have caused Japan's oldsters to shake their heads in horror and despair. This is the cult of Taiyozoku, the "Sun Tribers," the flaming youth of modern Japan...
Setting aside his drawing tools for a moment, Britain's best-known cartoonist, aging (65) David Low, writing for the New York Times Magazine, deplored, from a caricaturist's viewpoint, the post-Stalin decline of "the cult of personality." Lamented Low: "There has been a steady decline in striking personality as compared with pre-war yesterday, with its Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Gandhi, Churchill, Roosevelt and company . . . Eisenhower offers opportunities, certainly, with his curiously shaped skull and short, wide face, but nobody could say he was a cartoonist's delight . . . Things are even worse with the British...
Christian Wolff's music is not easily accessible either. It is a decidedly esoteric product of the John Cage cult, although probably better than anything Cage has done. Mr. Wolff played four pieces for piano and one for prepared piano. The technique is pointillist; tones are widely dispersed over the keyboard range, and in their succession they seldom suggest melody in the traditional sense of the term--single tones and sonorities assume a significance in themselves, and the phrase or line is replaced by the aggregate of points. Whether the feeling of oppression from lack of variety which comes after...
...commonwealth of Virginia is justly proud of its past. Virginia gave to the U.S. eight Presidents, of whom three-Washington, Jefferson and Madison-were the muscle, the heart and the mind of the Republic. Yet in its homage to history, Virginia has become increasingly a cult of the past, a temple of Shintoism in the U.S. In this sense Virginia is indeed less a geographical state than a state of mind, and the power of its longtime modern-day leader rests, as one of his aides said last week, on the fact that "Harry Byrd usually stands for what most...
...last week hysterically joined the weird posthumous cult of James Dean (TIME, Sept. 3), by featuring the late young actor on three shows and two networks. Harvest, starring Dorothy Gish and Ed Begley, reappeared on NBC's Robert Montgomery Presents; I'm a Fool, with Natalie Wood, on General Electric Theater (CBS); and The Unlighted Road was shown on CBS's Schlitz Playhouse of Stars for the third time. All three shows exploited the Dean legend for frankly commercial purposes. "He's hotter than anybody alive," cried one NBC executive. The pulse-takers backed...