Word: cults
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...agree with Ted Patrick's abduction techniques, but when a member of your family has been brainwashed by this frightening cult, there may be no other recourse. Do you believe that subjecting a person to daily distorted religious and anti-American propaganda is a sincere reflection of the Christian life...
Bertolucci and his film have already been much abused. He was subjected to a difficult obscenity trial in Italy. The film has been bandied about as sensational, been labeled both a sex film and a cult film, all with the result that many people try not even to show an interest in it or, worse yet, see a lurid sensationalism not actually present...
HERMANN HESSE HAS in the past few years become the center of a cult, a following consisting mostly of the young and which can respond easily to his simple, mythic-symbolic prose. This is lamentable because Hesse's works, many of which lie on the borderline of acceptability, will not get the careful consideration they deserve in the wake of such superficial faddism. The twenty-three Stories of Five Decades (only three of them previously available in English) will certainly lend some more weight to the arguments both for and against Hesse. And assuming that Ralph Manheim's translation...
...their fullest. Most of us at one time or another, have looked to Hesse in the small hope that he may have had something there. Stories of Five Decades doesn't demand to be read; neither does it deserve to be forgotten entirely. It may help explain the curious cult it has engendered...
...they will corrupt him. He can presumably take care of himself, and so he can admire Rosemary's Baby as art without any adverse consequences to his state of mind. But he favors the "total suppression" of that movie because he believes that it has contributed to "the cult of Satanism." Apparently he wants to protect other people, less mature than himself, from their own impulses. His insulting paternalism is evident throughout his essay...