Word: cultist
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...stopped lowering my head at the epithet "cultist" as soon as I realized that the quasi-religious connotation of the term was somewhat justified for those of us who loved movies beyond reason...
...Kosher of the Counterculture" [Nov. 16]: I am not a food faddist or cultist-and I am revolted by orange dye in my oranges, wax on my cucumbers, preservatives in my "fresh" mushrooms. Give me an apple with some marks on it that show it was just as tempting to an insect as it will be delicious and life-giving to me. But that kind of apple is neither cheap nor easy to buy. I wouldn't care so damned much about these food mutations and experiments if corporate greed were not using them to force the real thing...
...some biblical scholars in Britain, the new book looked like the psychedelic ravings of a hippie cultist. To others, it was merely an outlandish hoax. One described it as reading "like a Semitic philologist's erotic nightmare...
...only certain value of an avant-garde is that it is a sign of fecundity. There apparently will be a long and agonizing interregnum between the act of separation and the new art which must inevitably follow. Hence the avant-garde deserves neither cultist celebration nor complacent denunciation. Someone in the future may conclude that it was purest fantasy, wantonness disguised as on act of faith. It may turn out to be only senescent romanticism. But we cannot envision that future. For the moment we might breathe and touch the things of our poor, sweaty, nervous present and consider that...
...Phaedra, "shouted Tim." Phaedra! Phaedra we don't have to worry about. A cultist picture, for Tony Perkins fans...