Word: cults
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even as she testified, Mrs. Kasabian felt the pressure of the Manson cult. At one point Manson placed a thin finger to his mouth, seeking her silence. Susan Atkins caught Mrs. Kasabian's eye and mouthed: "You are killing us." Mrs. Kasabian mouthed back: "I am not killing you. You killed yourselves." One girl member of Manson's entourage, Sandy Good, smuggled a note to the witness: "Are you trying to kill us, Linda? Tens of thousands of pretty young people. The X you see on Charlie's forehead is now being worn by hundreds of people...
...began to sniff glue, drink wine, steal cars. He spent six years in a California reformatory, two more in jail for smuggling narcotics. Paroled at 20, he drifted to the flowering world of San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury, where he became a member of the Hare Krishna cult and custodian of the Radha Krishna temple. But the surrounding Hashbury mi lieu disturbed him: "I felt the hip scene was filled with plastic love and plastic peace. Their love was lust and their peace was a finger sign." Finally, Hoyt encountered one of the first of the new "Jesus people...
...professionals, she found, were a ludicrously earnest lot. "I come across as a human being," one of them soberly assured her. Their jargon was tiresome-they were always "resonating," "actualizing," "peaking," or having "gut reactions"-and their cult of the body seemed prejudicial to a girl who had always been more at home in her head...
Reworking Lenin. Perhaps the most telling is the treatment of Stalin in the recently published fourth edition of Lenin's biography, which is a sort of hagiography of Soviet Communism. Unlike the earlier biographies, the new edition omits the entire section on the rise of Stalin's cult of personality, the Soviet euphemism for his reign of terror. It glosses over his disputes with Lenin about economic and military policies. In addition, the present version strikes out Lenin's complaints that Stalin was coarse and rude. In fact, the only criticism of Stalin appears in Lenin...
Predictably enough, the green wrist cult has developed its own rules. The bracelet must be closely fitted, for instance, and its ends must not come into contact with each other. Once clamped on, it must not be removed-not even for bathing. "One must never clean them off," says Movie Director Herbert Ross. "They clean themselves off, although it is O.K. to wash the green and black off your wrist." After about two years, the makers wisely claim, the bracelets lose their power and must be replaced-a sort of magical planned obsolescence...