Word: cults
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Psychiatrists Schaefer and Hatterer are slightly off in their explanation of why the cult of Judy Garland [Aug. 18] has so many homosexual members. It is not that they "gravitate toward superstars" or else they would surely flock to the Beatles' concerts; and it is certainly not that Judy Garland has "become masculine and powerful." The answer is simply that they identify with Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, poor little unattractive, unwanted Dorothy who eventually had all her dreams come true in the magical Emerald City. You will notice that the majority of Garland fans in her audiences...
...Garland affects a far broader audience than her ever-present little bluebirds. She has the true entertainer's capacity for transmitting her feelings across the footlights. Nor is it a oneway message. "Audiences," she says, "have kept me alive." As she told her exuberant cult at the Palace last week: "Everything I want is right here...
Bhutanese tapestries and wall paintings are a blend of Buddhism, Hinduism and Bon, the country's original cult of sorcery and spirit worship. There is little in them to distinguish today from yesterday. Works are not dated; subject matter is part of a continuous tradition handed down from monk to monk, generation to generation. Often the meaning of the centuries-old silk tapestries is obscure. The Mystic Spiral, intended for monastic meditation, is a vision whose precise symbolism is known only to a few learned lamas. To the Western viewer, its concentric circles, drawing him into a dizzying infinity...
...Sons of the Desert is one of the latest manifestations of a growing cult. Primarily, the interest derives from reruns of L. & H. films on TV. In the past three years, moreover, two successful feature-length films composed of clips from old L. & H. shorts have been released, and a third is scheduled for this fall. The fever has spawned a cartoon series as well as TV tributes on CBS and NBC, and the mugging faces of L. & H. appear on everything from puppets and salt-and-pepper shakers to the jacket of the new Beatles album. In Paris...
...with insights into the clowns' techniques, Films will undoubtedly add new dimensions to the L. & H. legend -a prospect that Everson contemplates with regret. "Overadulation," he warns, "can often build up a wall of resentment against its objects, who are usually wholly innocent of any involvement in a cult movement, often dislike it, and usually refuse to take it seriously." When he heard about the formation of the Sons of the Desert shortly before his death, Laurel suggested that the club should maintain only a halfway dignity, and that "everybody have a hell...