Word: cults
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Minutiae & Half Truths. For cocktail party dissenters, as well as the burgeoning cult of parlor detectives, the chief stimulant has been an outpouring of critical books on the subject. The biggest seller of all (110,000 copies) is Attorney Mark Lane's Rush to Judgment, which in effect is a defense brief for Oswald. Actually, the author admits: "My book is not an objective analysis; I've never said that I believe Oswald did it or did not do it. I say that had Oswald faced trial, he would not have been convicted...
...cult of the opera singer, in fact, is spiced with more fads, phobias and superstitions than are found in most primitive cultures. The most persistent myth is that girth somehow determines worth, a legend that one doctor says stems from the fact that many of the early Italian singers seemed to be congenitally fat. Today, however, with the emphasis on realistic drama and the lure of TV and films, the net weight of the singers has dropped a ton or two since the early 1900s. Still, most of them are not exactly skinny. Singing opera is extremely demanding physically...
...technicians" in universities are doing an adequate job in the transmission of knowledge, and feels that this is appropriate in the sciences, where knowledge is "glittering, hard, clear." But, as he sees it, this is "professional training," not education; and the trouble is that humanities scholars have joined this "cult of the fact," and now "manage to interpose between us and the texts a barrier of knowledge more lush and impenetrable than our earlier ignorance...
...power struggle had little to do with the pleasures of life learned from the Moors. Bullfighting became a sport shared by all the populace, and even an elementary form of baseball emerged. The cult of courtly love crossed the Pyrenees, and was adopted by Moorish lords, who in song and painting boasted of their prowess, both as warriors and lovers. Mudéjar art, produced by Moslems living under Christian rule, flourished. So did medicine and many of Spain's great universities date from this fruitful period. When in 1492, the year Columbus discovered the New World, the last...
...house dedicated to the cult of the singer, that is a remarkable accomplishment, particularly for Böhm, since he is the antithesis of the flashy, scene-stealing conductor. Where some maestros seem intent on bending the score to fit their own interpretation, Böhm thinks of himself as the trustee of the composer, lets the music speak for itself. His attack is clean, crisp and controlled, and he adheres to the dictum of his close friend Richard Strauss: the basic duty of the opera conductor is to buoy up rather than drown out the singers...