Word: cults
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...once respected drug program turns into a kooky cult...
...nononsense, self-help program that included the "game," a rugged encounter session in which participants acted out their inmost hostilities. Learning the truth about themselves supposedly helped them stay off drugs or booze. But in recent years, Dederich has had more grandiose ambitions and transformed Synanon into a religious cult with himself as high priest and prophet. It now attracts fewer addicts and more middle-class eccentrics in search of new adventures in living...
...Eating by M.F.K. Fisher (Random Vintage; $5.95 paper). Few people have written about the subject with greater gusto and poesy than this California woman who has become a cult figure among gastronomes...
...those days a cult arose among the most disaffected Santalanders--a cult centered around the now-mythic figure of the original Santa Claus. And as The Santa Corporation's plants continued to churn out gifts that would probably never be unwrapped, the Clausists' following grew...
...found him virtually nowhere on the all-important scale of commercial success. Several of his songs--"Loan Me a Dime," for example, and "Dinah Flo" were FM classics, but FM airplay is a notoriously poor way to pay the rent. It was the old story--a critical acclaim and cult following which did not translate into anything tangible and preferably green. His gradual evolution from rock to a bland middle-of-the-road sound just wasn't making it and he was due for either a radical change or more years in obscurity...