Word: cults
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...debate over the First Amendment prompts one to propose that the cult of a free press with "objective" reporting of "all the news that's fit to print" can become just as dogmatic as the dogma of papal infallibility in Roman Catholicism, or finding the "correct" party line in Marxism-Leninism. Marx and Freud have virtually destroyed the doctrine of detached objectivity and have instead shown how people think or react according to their social class or emotional needs...
...Harder They Come. Starring Jimmy Cliffe. The movie quickly became something of a cult phenomenon. And why shouldn't it have? It's got everything: set in a Jamaican ghetto under sunny blue skies, the movie looks like a travelogue; a reggae singe on the up and up is bullied and beaten down by the local fat king of the record business; he falls for a sweet young thing, innocent ward of the neighborhood preacher, and then shows up the preacher's God-stricken ranting and moaning and raving as plain lechery. His ambition as a rock star thwarted...
...Steve Allen persuaded them to record some of their material. That tape turned into 2000 years with Reiner and Brooks. 2001 Years with Reiner and Brooks and Reiner and Brooks at the Cannes Film Festival followed quickly, and though neither enjoyed the popularity of the first album, a large cult of Reiner-Brooks fans mourned when the old man was put out to pasture...
...latest novel, They, Miss Mannes composed a horror-fantasy about a brave new world in which the aging were liquidated in the name of youth cult. In Last Rights she argues for allowing the aging to liquidate themselves, to arrange their own end when they judge death preferable to life. At the conclusion of her essay, Miss Mannes, now in her middle 60s, presents her own legal document of instructions, including the proviso: "I do not wish to survive a stroke that impairs my ability to speak or move, nor any accident or disease resulting in vision too impaired...
...reaction to Kohoutek is also taking more metaphysical forms. A militant Jesus cult called the Children of God, which claims a worldwide membership, is convinced that the comet is an omen of disaster and is directly predicting doomsday ("Forty days," warns the group's leader "Moses David" Berg, and "Nineveh shall be destroyed!"). A different alarm is sounded by the Italian parapsychologist Astaroth, 52 (real name: Claudio Giannantonio), who counsels members of the Rome political and movie set. Astaroth explains that comets disrupt the "psychomagnet-ic equilibrium" of the planetary system. He adds: "Human beings will be drawn...