Word: cults
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cued by Khrushchev himself, who recently rapped Evtushenko for "cheap sensationalism." a three-day meeting of the Union of Soviet Writers last month addressed itself almost exclusively to destroying the cult of Evtushenko. In all, close to 40 tame authors trooped monotonously forward to denounce Evtushenko and other liberal young writers for offenses ranging from bad rhymes to "sacrilegious statements" about the Revolution. Though Evtushenko made abject apologies for his "irrevocable mistake.'' the drumfire of criticism only grew louder and more insistent...
...Lipizzan stallions in the classic battle tactics devised by a French riding master named Antoine Pluvinel. Bonapartes and Habsburgs came and went. The horse itself became obsolete as a weapon of war. But in its great white temple, the great white breed, serving like a race of priests the cult of equitation, continued serenely in its rituals and would so continue, the Viennese assumed, until the Danube itself had dried to dust...
According to Terence Cogley '65, President of the Advocate, Dean Watson imposed the restriction because he "does not want clubhouses to become public meeting places." Pennington, however, said that the "real" reason for the limitation was to preclude the possibility of a Pennington "cult...
Starting with the first exchange of fan letters in 1935, a correspondence flourished between the two men for almost 25 years. This lively, well-weeded (but unbowdlerized) selection by Editor George Wickes will gratify members of the Miller cult and place the talents of Durrell in the scenes in which they flourished-Corfu, Belgrade, Alexandria and Provence...
...Glass stories have all been reprinted from the New Yorker in book form, and Salinger, on the dust jacket of the latest offering, Raise High the Roof Beams, Carpenters (1955) and Seymour: an Introduction (1959), promises several more, which will no doubt be well received by the growing Salinger cult. The heroes of the saga, as everyone knows, are or were seven children (two are now dead), the offspring of a Jewish-Irish vaudeville team. Super-intellegent from birth, they started in rotation on a radio quiz kid show. Grown-ups now, they are spread far afield: Buddy teachers English...