Word: cults
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...least 2 million Americans are now aware of the Ministry of Silly Walks. College students are finding new meanings for the word stupid, and old ladies may even be getting ideas about beating up kids. What is this pernicious influence, bordering on a cult, that is now sweeping the U.S.? The word is Monty Python. Five roopy young Englishmen, who methodically take the world apart each week in a series of sketches mysteriously called Monty Python 's Flying Circus, have conquered the U.S. air waves. The Pythons are getting the kind of following that a presidential candidate might envy...
Woodside would rather ignore the cult that has grown up around him and his course. He is gratified by the affectionate respect of his mentor, John K. Fairbank '29, Higginson Professor of History, and the admiration of students like Dan Swanson '74, a former president of The Crimson who once wrote, "This University should belong to people like Professor Woodside." But Woodside is vaguely uncomfortable with such prominence. He'd rather just work quietly at Harvard, not dominate...
...view of David Riesman. Ford Professor of the Social Sciences, the countercultural revolution has "made the Houses less attractive to older faculty." The "cult of spontaneity" espoused by young people, he says, meant that "anything could happen." Riesman cites an incident to illustrate his point. "A couple of years ago my wife and I invited a group of Radcliffe students to come over for tea. Not all responded to the note we sent out, so we called them. Several told us on the day of the tea that they were coming. In the end, only four of eight telling...
...with an aversion that seems less priestly chastity than schoolboy prudery). To keep Bekla's economy prosperous, the Ortelgans revive a particularly obnoxious slave trade dealing in children. Kelderek, his mind on the possibilities of sainthood, thoughtlessly gives his approval of this abomination. Thus morally undermined, the bear cult deteriorates until enemies threaten Bekla. The bear Shardik is wounded, escapes to the countryside, kills an evil slave trader, then dies himself. After some hideous adventures, Kelderek atones for his misrule, marries a beautiful but slightly soiled virgin priestess, and sets up a community to care for former slave children...
Pretty Poison. A cult piece, which means that a lot of people liked it better than the New York Times did. No matter--it has Tuesday Weld and that's reason enough to slip over and see it after you've told fifty people at dinner you're going to Potemkin, "unlike the rest of the mealy-brained slobs at this University." Good luck...