Word: cults
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when they pulled themselves erect for the take-off, it was clear that Brown's film was about the sport of surfing, not the cult. He ignored the beach goings-on, the bikinied "beach bunnies," and the faked-up music; instead he kept his camera on the athletes who navigated through a sea of underwater rocks, stray boards, sharks, poisonous fish, and other surfers...
...condone China's aberrations in order to gain more leverage from the Sino-So viet split, are now roundly denouncing the Red Chinese as "insane." Hungarian Communist Boss Janos Kadar calls the events in China a "national tragedy." East Germany has accused the Red Chinese of "encouraging the cult of Mao to boundless excesses...
...insist on fobbing off Robert Kennedy's political strength on some sort of mystical personality cult? The fact is that no other living man can show credentials of experience and accomplishment equal to his at his age-even fuller and more distinguished than John Kennedy's at the same...
...takes to crooning about her soul ("Oh me great black and rosy wings!"), and where from time to time, naked women dance in the rear of the premises. George, serves him right, is killed in a skiing accident. Nellie is last seen entering a mysterious house that shelters some cult in search of the "Unknowable...
...Insect. Some of Wertham's most provocative fire is directed at the clinical cult in literature and drama, in which human suffering is viewed with such detachment that it becomes trivial. The tone of John Mersey's Hiroshima and Truman Capote's In Cold Blood reduces violence almost to the level of natural catastrophes and impersonal acts, he says. The film The Collector, n which a young lepidopterist kidnaps a girl and keeps her locked up until she dies, is more than simply a sick parody of entomology: it adds to what Werham feels is the pervasive...