Word: cults
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sections," wrote Kriss, "the first may prove toughest to nail down. What is it beyond the Kennedy cult that nourishes his popularity? He seems to have made a goodly number of blunders; yet none of them have hurt his standing in the polls. Is his popularity increasing in spite of himself-or because of himself...
Mushroomburgers & Sundaes. Los Angeles is the holy temple of the American cult of youth. As evidenced by the tight slacks and long hair on Sunset Strip, the bikinied surfers who abound along the coast and the fashionable boutiques and beauty parlors of Beverly Hills, it is a city that seeks ceaselessly after youth. Sports cars and motorcycles are everywhere-but so, too, are the symptoms of another Los Angeles fixation: death. In the city that made interment a high art, and to which oldsters gravitate to spend their final years, bus-stop benches double as advertisements for funeral homes...
...American cult of the "mother" . . . ugh! No wonder some scientists seriously consider automatic incubators for future generations...
...hasn't even convinced her. She got rave reviews and an S.R.O. Funny Girl run in London, but she was nightmarishly maladroit when she met Princess Margaret. Arriving late at the receiving line, she apologized to Her Royal Highness: "I got screwed up." She still worries that her cult of followers will desert her. "Barbra," says her producer-actor husband, Elliott Gould, "is the kind of person who is hurt if her puppy walks past...
...Lance Cpl. C. J. Whitman," he stuffed provisions to sustain him during a long siege and to cover every contingency: Spam, Planters peanuts, fruit cocktail, sandwiches and boxes of raisins, jerricans containing water and gasoline, rope, binoculars, canteens, transistor radio, toilet paper, and, in a bizarre allegiance to the cult of cleanliness, a plastic bottle of Mennen spray deodorant. He also stowed away a private armory that seemed sufficient to hold off an army: machete, Bowie knife, hatchet, a 6-mm. Remington bolt-action rifle with a 4-power Leupold telescopic sight (with which, experts say, a halfway decent shot...