Word: cults
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...middle-aging Beatle-manic mother, may I suggest that it is not "the parents who are targets of the Beatles' satirical gibes" but rather the soppy cult of pseudo-sacrifice wherein Aunt Bessie of the Missionary Society tells everyone about the hair shirt she has to wear because she donated all her brassières to the Uncivilized Savages...
...been," says Elsa, the oldest. Under her direction, they go to school as usual, do the housekeeping, and maintain a kind of brawling, sprawling discipline based on love for each other and fear of the perils outside the old stained-glass door. They are sustained, too, by a mother cult-complete with sepulchral candles and antiphonal responses-in which one sensitive girl plays Sibyl for her siblings, delivering utterances from Mother, "who is always with...
...that "we're more popular than Jesus," which set off an anti-Beatle furor last year, was not a boast but an expression of disgust. Though he phrased it ineptly, he was posing the question: What kind of world is it that makes more fuss over a pop cult than over religion...
...Mystic Cult. With the Beatles cutting out personal appearances and thus needing him less and less, Epstein built up a management agency for other big-beat talent. He bought a West End theater and produced such works as James Baldwin's Amen Corner. He also made a none too impressive debut as host of a five-minute segment of NBC's Hullabaloo TV series...
When Epstein died last week, the Beatles were some 225 miles away in Wales, getting initiated into an Indian mystic cult led by one Maharishi Mahesh Yogi -a recent enthusiasm of theirs. All four Beatles rushed back to London, making statements like John's, "We loved Brian...