Word: cults
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rather surprising, then, that one of the counselors inspired us to build a cult around a comedian named Mel Brooks during my last Stockbridge summer. It is especially surprising when you consider who are the targets of a record such as the Brooks "2000 Year Old Man" (Capitol). I doubt if we ever quite understood then that we loved Mel Brooks because we were the very people he was lambasting...
Haunted by the grisly specter of a Charles Manson cult, the frightened residents of the county turned on the numerous hippie communes dotting the surrounding hills. One recalled Mrs. Ohta complaining about the hippies two months earlier. A friend remembered that Dr. Ohta had recently chased uninvited young people away from his swimming pool...
...Maoists, the radical separatists in Quebec, the Naxalites in India, the Weathermen and Panthers in the U.S. all share the spirit of anarchism: its fascination with violence, its chaotic organization, its insistence on absolute freedom (an illusion that in the past has invariably led to tyranny). Often their cult is pseudo-religious, even monastic: it is consecrated to a dead or distant deity like Che Guevara or Mao Tse-tung; its communicants gather in intimate, almost confessional cells: and they observe a ritual secrecy that eventually cuts them off from society altogether. Their ideologies differ, but in general their rationale...
Cultural revolutionaries created new problems. The "revolutionary life-style" nurtured by Yippies infused chaos, freakiness, drugs, violence, and music into the movement. Its heroes, male musicians and male radicals, energized a growing revolutionary virility cult. With cultural revolutionaries in the movement, how much chaos would it now tolerate? The Chicago 7 trial epitomized this conflict between the discipline of Tom Hayden, and the theatrics of Jerry Rubin...
...addition, the mutual funds?notably the newer, smaller "gogo" funds ?were largely responsible for the dazzling but dangerous cult of "performance." This notion, which began taking root in 1965, was that aggressive institutions could wring more profit from a rising market by swinging in and out of glamour issues than by holding on to solid stocks. Trading volume?and brokers' profits?rocketed. Go-go funds made great leaps, and even some staid trust officers in banks joined the stampede to buy and sell. According to a study released last week by the Twentieth Century Fund, the trading policies...