Word: cults
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...controversy is not a cause celebre of the proportions of the Pentagon papers, but for two years the Central Intelligence Agency has employed its wits, wiles and considerable manpower in an effort to stop publication of large chunks of a book called The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence. The agency has fought so hard because the book's principal author, Victor Marchetti, 44, was a CIA officer with access to much secret material and a zeal to reveal it. Although its reliability will be questioned, the book is the most detailed expose of CIA tactics to date...
According to a recent Gallup poll, Kissinger is the man Americans admire most in the world today. Abroad he has achieved the kind of celebrity status seldom enjoyed by anyone but top movie stars; in fact, he has become in some places almost a cult hero. His round, expressive face draws more instant recognition in many nations than even that of the local ruler. Government leaders, like so many shy fans, inveigle ways to be photographed with...
...needs religion and ritual, and the recent cult of parapsychology has produced an impressive clergy...
Last Tango in Paris. A year ago next week I wrote in the Scrutiny column that Last Tango in Paris had already been much abused. The film had been bandied about as sensational, labeled both a sex film and a cult film, I wrote, all with the result that many people tried not even to show an interest in it or, worse yet, saw a lurid sensationalism not actually present...
...opposite another masterpiece--especially another one starring Brando. The comparison won't be fair, though. A Streetcar Named Desire is one of the most firmly entrenched American plays, loved by the public and critics alike. Last Tango in Paris still hasn't found its niche, it's still a cult film or a sex film or whatever depending on your point of view. People still don't know how to react. But maybe in a year or so--if it keeps being shown without fanfare--Last Tango in Paris will be acknowledged as the great movie it is, not dismissed...