Word: cults
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cult still has expansive holdings, but it long ago misplaced both its proselytizing and promotional zeal. The House of David's barnstorming baseball team, its most renowned attraction for 25 years, was disbanded back in 1937. Also gone are Chic Bell's bearded touring musicians. The colony's picturesque Benton Harbor amusement park once attracted 200,000 visitors a year, now draws fewer than 30,000. So depleted are the ranks that outsiders have to be hired to operate the shabby House of David Hotel in downtown Benton Harbor. Sighs pigtailed Tom Dewhirst, 58, head...
MARY POPPINS IS A JUNKIE kicked off the craze. This was the brainchild of San Francisco Disk Jockey Dan Sorkin, who was fed up with the Mary Poppins cult, had 1,000 Poppins stickers run off for his friends, including Julie Andrews, who pasted one on her station wagon. Sorkin's station KSFO started printing the sticker, and before it knew what had happened, 60,000 had been given away...
...immediately evident: subtle influences may be at work and may become manifest only later." Such long-range effects, Dr. Moser warned, may never be traced to the drug that caused them. "This is a shadow world of pathophysiology, where relation of cause to effect is at best diffi cult to assess...
With Harper Paul Newman makes it into the high echelons of professional slick. Ten, maybe twenty years hence he may have his own cult, assuming he gets enough good parts. And if he extends ten years of steady improvement, he may even deserve the cult he gets...
...Camp Crowd? The Hallucinogeneration?-but they have brattishly proclaimed their principal preoccupations: LSD, pot, the Spirit of Berkeley, californication, and not fighting in Viet Nam. While there are only a few of them, they have begun to produce a noisy literature that confesses its mongrel origin in the cult of hip, the theater of the absurd, the works of Jack Kerouac, the pop art movement and some of the more deplorable traditions of the college humor magazine...