Word: cults
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have seen or heard of, is not a "porno" film, but a work of considerable artistic merit--Rosemary's Baby. This film, which made real a universe in which the power and ultimate triumph of evil are inevitable, did more than any five other factors to fuel the cult of Satanism with its growing roll of ritual murders and assorted social pathologies. In spite of (or, in a real sense, because of) its great artistic merit, it would have been better had this film never been shown to general audiences. The leftist British writer, Pamela Hansford Johnson, came...
...Yaqui. The book was The Teachings of Don Juan: a Yaqui Way of Knowledge (1968). With its sequels, A Separate Reality (1971) and the current Journey to Ixtlan (1972), it has made U.S. cult figures of its author and subject ? an anthropologist named Carlos Castaneda and a mysterious old Yaqui Indian from Sonora called Juan Matus. In essence, Castaneda's books are the story of how a European rationalist was initiated into the practice of Indian sorcery. They cover a span of ten years, during which, under the weird, taxing and sometimes comic tutelage of Don Juan, a young...
...sorts. The antics of Pynchon's odd crew cover a conspiracy to build their own V rocket and fire it off. Aimed at what and for what purpose? Who knows? Making a rocket from scrounged parts seems to be like making a philosophical system or a mystic cult. It is something humans simply have...
Playgoers in a silly mood will probably find this daffy production highly diverting. Others will not. British and European audiences made El Coca-Cola Grande something of a cult, and if there is anything that off-Broadway loves, it is a cult; the show will doubtless have its U.S. devotees...
...noble tendency, but it can also be a curse. At its most grotesque, it has led otherwise rational men to argue that massive killing and destruction of property are justifiable because they will bring about a tranquil future. At its most bathetic, it has helped to create an American cult whose holy writ is the Great Insurance Policy in the Sky which helps you "lay away" something for college when you are 16, for medical school when you are 18, for marriage when you are 20, for retirement when you are 25 (with a pre-natal clause for nursery school...