Word: cults
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although that sounds like a pipe-dream, it conveys the unreality that permeates hippiedom, a cult whose mystique derives essentially from the influence of hallucinogenic drugs. The hippies have popularized a new word, psychedelic, which the Random House...
Hashish Trail. From this promise, possibly more exciting-and more dangerous-than any adventure offered by travel agents, was born the cult of hippiedom. Its disciples, who have little use for definitions, are mostly young and generally thoughtful Americans who are unable to reconcile themselves to the stated values and implicit contradictions of contemporary Western society, and have become internal emigres, seeking individual liberation through means as various as drug use, total withdrawal from the economy and the quest for individual identity...
...estimate of their nationwide number runs to some 300,000. Disinterested officials generally reduce that figure, but even the most skeptical admit that there are countless thousands of part-time, or "plastic," hippies who may "drop out" only for a night or two each week. By all estimates, the cult is a growing phenomenon that has not yet reached its peak-and may not do so for years to come...
...Only Live Twice. Ever since his cinema debut in 1962, James Bond has been the subject of cult and caricature, spoof and spectacular. Now, five films later, he is the victim of the same misfortune that once befell Frankenstein: there have been so many flamboyant imitations that the original looks like a copy...
...Moribund Market. One of Galbraith's main contentions is that the rise of the technostructure has brought the demise of that cornerstone of capitalism, the free market. As avidly as Eastern Europe's socialists, the U.S.'s industrial organization men embrace the cult of planning, leaving very little to the chancy market. Galbraith argues that they carefully plan production, use aggressive advertising as part of that planning to bamboozle the public into buying, and are sufficiently monopolistic to "establish prices and insure demand." In the fastest-rising industries-defense, space, atomics, electronics and supersonic transport-they have...