Word: cults
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cult of Revolution. Evergreen's politics is as far out as its sex. It subscribes to the New Left roster of revolutionary heroes: Che Guevara, Castro, Malcolm X, Ho Chi Minh, Stokely Carmichael. It has published LeRoi Jones's furious diatribes against whites, mainly Jewish: "The little arty bastards talking arithmetic they sucked from the Arab's head." While not taking it too seriously, Rosset excuses black anti-Semitism on the grounds that Jewish merchants, after all, have exploited Negroes in the ghetto. "We agree with practically everything LeRoi says," explains Rosset, "except that...
...tung pamphlets are still a hot item, and Quotations from Chairman LBJ sold out two weeks before publication. Packed between cloth covers, Charlie's chantings might well provide college campuses with a new pop-cult bestseller...
From yesterday's fad, the cult of physical fitness has developed into a national middle-aged obsession. Its manifestations are everywhere. Through numberless public parks, in every sort of weather, straggle the beflanneled registrants of Run for Your Life programs, jogging up to five miles a day, sometimes at the very respectable rate of seven minutes per mile. In thousands of gyms, yoga and dance studios, reducing emporiums and downtown athletic clubs, an uncomputed and possibly unprecedented tonnage of soft and mature flesh jiggles, bends, hops, kicks, creaks and groans. Washington's Governor Dan Evans organized...
...name of all the past and present editors of the Partisan Review did Jack Kerouac, cult leader of post-World War II intellectual vagrants, ever attain standing as a member (let alone chieftain) of the avantgarde? Vanity of Duluoz, his best book, is a picaresque novel in a tradition as old as Tristram Shandy and about as avant-garde as Laurence Sterne-a man in holy orders, puckish though...
...corporate-and union-pension funds. To a surprising degree, the institutional managers are men in their 30s and early 40s, and they are changing many of the old rules with new attitudes. Instead of aiming to preserve capital or achieve steady dividends, they are confidently committed to a cult of growth. In their search for short-term gain, many are taking longer risks for larger profits, trading in and out for the quick turn...