Word: cults
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...agreeably entertaining subject-except, of course, to the participants. If all the world is divided into those who can't live without folk singing and those who can, the inside world of the folk-singing cult itself is further divided into the purists and the entertainers. Somewhere in the center of all the fuss, and appealing to both sides, is Joan Baez, our cover girl...
...Cult & Industry. Removed from its natural backgrounds, folk singing has become both an esoteric cult and a light industry. Folk-song albums are all over the bestseller charts, and folk-singing groups command as much as $10,000 a night in the big niteries. As a cultural fad folk singing appeals to genuine intellectuals, fake intellectuals, sing-it-yourself types, and rootless root seekers who discern in folk songs the fine basic values of American life. As a pastime, it has staggeringly multiplied sales of banjos and guitars; more than 400,000 guitars were sold in the U.S. last year...
...Ministers, hundreds of British M.P.s, and presumably won the battle of Waterloo on its playing fields. But in this querulous century, in novels and memoirs, such latter-day Etonians as Osbert Sitwell, Aldous Huxley, Cyril Connolly and George Orwell have all looked back in irony or outrage at the cult of games, the bullying and beatings, the high premium placed by school authorities on well-organized mediocrity...
...League is succumbing to the Cult of the Personality. Games are becoming personal contests between two supposed supermen rather than 22-man affairs. Cornell didn't play Columbia two Saturday's ago: Gary Wood fought Archie Roberts. Cornell's game with Dartmouth this week is primarily interesting because it brings together Wood and Bill King...
Swedes practice nudism with erotic grace, the French with gay abandon; British nudists even manage to shed the stiff upper lip. Among West Germans, unzipping has become a solemn Teutonic cult whose practitioners rarely even wear a smile. Banned by the Nazis as "one of the greatest dangers to German morality and culture.'' nudism has enjoyed a spectacular boom since the end of World War II. As prosperous Germans have been able to afford more and better clothes, they yearned all the more to take them off-except, of course, in austerely Communist East Germany, where even collective...