Word: cults
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Psychobabble, says Rosen, is the official dialect of the narcissistic cult of candor that is tyrannizing the culture. The language "is difficult to avoid and there is often an embarrassment involved in not using it, somewhat akin to the mild humiliation experienced by American tourists in Paris who cannot speak the native tongue." According to Rosen, self-help and sex books, instant therapies and self-improvement courses like est purvey psychobabble in pure form. The problem is not just that psychological ideas dominate national conversation, but that psychobabble is a deadened tongue with no words to express "the paradoxes...
...portentousness of Conductor Leopold Stokowski and Commentator Deems Taylor in their portions of the Disney picture. This is strictly high school skit stuff, far below the general level of the animated material it introduces. The effort ill serves the cause of expanding the audience for serious animation beyond the cult level. Unfortunately that is still what it was in 1940, when Disney made his noble effort to suggest the rich possibilities...
...will never cease to puzzle me how so many people can be so deceived for so long in spite of all evidence against their delusion. Even some parents of cult members will defend to the death the madmen who enslave their children's minds. Fortunately for me, God has special providence for fools and idiots, and some of us escape. I was one of the few lucky ones to escape with my life and sanity still intact...
Vanners themselves, or at least the zealots, seem as much a cult as a fellowship. They have formed hundreds of societies. Many drive hundreds or even thousands of miles to converge with other vanners at picnicky socials that are held all over the country. Such a bash is known as a "truckin" or a "burnout" or a "push" or-ah!-a "van-go." Invariably, a key feature of the outing is the mutual admiration of vans and the adorning artwork. Some paint jobs cost $3,000. News of ever fresh extravagances circulates in 25 or so magazines devoted to vanning...
...nearly seven-decade-long career in vaudeville with his zany brothers Harpo, Chico, Gummo and Zeppo. They reached the pinnacle of Broadway in the mid-1920s and went on to hilarious movies, such as Horse Feathers (1932) and A Night at the Opera (1935), that still enjoy a huge cult following and invariably feature Groucho as an appealing rogue capable of fast-talking his way out of any difficulty. On his radio and TV quiz show You Bet Your Life, he was able to deploy all his famous trademarks: the loping gait, arched eyebrows, lecherous leer and emotive cigar...