Word: cults
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Horse opera. Clever don't you think? And the Hoo-Doo cult of North America. A much richer art form than preaching to fishermen and riding into town on the back of an ass. And that apotheosis. How disgusting. He had such an ego. "I'm the Son of God." ... And his method had no style at all. Compare his cheap performance at the grave-site of Lot-sickening- and that parable of our friend Buddha and the mustard seed. One, just a grandstand exhibition, and the other, beautiful, artistic and profound. The pieces are laid...
...behind the mask of common vision: the dialectics of human behavior. At a moment of psychic shock, a moment of terror, of mortal danger or tremendous joy, a man does not behave 'naturally.' " By attacking the whole concept of natural behavior, Grotowski divorces himself from the cult of psychological realism, as exemplified, in the Actors' Studio. The Actors' Studio idea is that the self is an onion. If one peels off enough layers, one will reach emotional verity. But Grotowski's goal is spiritual truth. Through strenuous physical exercise and contemplative disciplines, his actors...
...student prosecutors challenged the defense contention that "The New Brotherhood of Man," a four-year-old cult whose single sacrament was not-smoking, really constituted "a 'religion' in the traditional sense." They argued that the "defendant," therefore, was not entitled to religious immunity under the First Amendment...
...triggered by a power struggle. Angered by Indira's attempts to oust them from control of the party machinery, the bosses took an unusual step. After frenzied discussions, they expelled Prime Minister Gandhi from Congress for refusing to obey party discipline. Accusing Indira of encouraging a "personality cult that is threatening democracy in the organization," they called upon the party to elect a new government leader...
SALVATION. Begotten by Hair, this new musical is an aesthetically retarded child that epitomizes Modcom - the commercial exploitation of modernity without regard for dramatic art. Like other Modcom productions that peddle the youth cult. Salvation is replete with cynical simulations of innocence, freedom and dissent...