Word: cults
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...That was a fine article on Humphrey Bogart [Feb. 7], one of America's greatest actors. Never has the idolatory of such a cult been so deservedly bestowed. The uncommon good sense of the Harvards is very encouraging...
...Genteel Cult. By knowing more about Regency fops, rakes, routs and blades than anyone else alive, Georgette Heyer has turned what otherwise could be dismissed as a long series of sugary historical romances into a body of work that will probably be consulted by future scholars as the most detailed and accurate portrait of Regency life anywhere. She has also become the center of a genteel reading cult that has made her for years a runaway bestseller in England and now is spreading to the U.S., proliferating vociferously at ladies' luncheons and in lending libraries. But as with...
...major revival of this minor romantic art cult is under way. Collectors are dusting off what they thought were slips in their purchasing judgment. Prices are beginning to hit $10,000. And Indianapolis' Herron Museum this week opens a thorough review of the movement whose name clearly states its yearning to turn 400 years back to the quattrocento...
...Next Step. The cult of pop hedonism and phony sexual sophistication grows apace. It produces such books as Sex and the Single Man, in which Dr. Albert Ellis, a supposedly reputable psychologist, offers crude but obvious instructions on how to seduce a girl, and the Playboy Clubs, which are designed to look wicked except that no one is supposed even to touch the "Bunnies"-creating the teasing impression of brothels without...
These two allies against Puritanism seemed to be joined by Eros in person. The cult of romantic passion, with its assertion that true love could exist only outside marriage, had first challenged Christianity in the 12th century; some consider it an uprising of the old paganism long ago driven underground by the church. From Tristan on, romance shaped the great literary myths of the West and became a kind of secular religion. Christianity learned to coexist with...