Word: cults
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...same reason that British industry, dominant in the world from 1776 to 1876, decayed. The threat comes from "industrophobia"-the mood among intellectuals, ecologists, students and others from the educated and monied classes, which view business as vulgar and dangerous. On U.S. campuses, he writes, an "antigrowth cult is being taught to a generation of idealistic kids as if it was high moral philosophy or even a religion...
...will conquer and subjugate the world," says Sun Myung Moon. "I am your brain." The latter statement is quite literally true for a growing coterie of young American converts, who regard the South Korean cult leader (TIME, Sept. 30, 1974) as the second Christ. Asking no questions, they obediently hawk candy and flowers, raising millions to spread the faith. They exist on a shoestring, while Moon, 55, lives in lordly fashion in a 25-room mansion in New York's Westchester County...
...Unification Church's national budget alone is $11 million, not counting the expenses of 120 local branches and affiliates. The cult grows steadily and currently claims 30,000 members, 7,000 of whom live in Moon communities. All believe that a "Lord of the Second Advent" (Moon, though this is not stated publicly) will redeem mankind physically by fathering a perfect family. A blend of Christian terminology, occultism and dualism is taught in Moon's scripture, The Divine Principle...
...rewarded with a great performance. From his first appearance on stage, Jimmy Cliff showed his pleasure to be finally singing in Boston, long an isolated stronghold of reggae sentiment in this country. Bounding about the stage like Mosca, brandishing the screaming-white-starred shirt made famous in his Cambridge cult film, The Harder They Come, dancing and sliding in eels of black wire, he flung himself into his music with unabashed fervor...
Springsteen first appeared in the mid-'60s for a handful of loy al fans from the scuzzy Jersey shore. Then, two record albums of wired brilliance (Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. and The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle) enlarged his audience to a cult. The albums had ecstatic reviews - there was continuing and talk of "a new Dylan" growing - but slim sales. Springsteen spent nearly two years working on his third album, Born to Run, and Columbia Records has already invested $150,000 in ensuring that this time around, everyone gets the message...