Word: cults
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...York City. My Voice lingered unsold in the racks of the Waverley Smoke Shop, Some time has passed, and much history. But social values don't change in three years--particularly those held by egoists. Even after one term of Nixonism, with another to come. Don Siegel's director cult is still ready to defend Dirty Henry for its mise on scene. Even if the film craze has slowly puttered out, every adolescent artiste still yearns for an Eclair or an Arriflex. The Village Voice has gotten slightly better--it featured some good convention coverage. Andrew Sarris has gotten slightly...
Veteran China watchers report that there has been a lessening of the Mao cult in recent months. There is no reason to doubt their word, but it is difficult for the Westerner encountering China for the first time to imagine how the cult of Mao was ever more extensive than it now seems to be. One cannot escape Mao in China. It is a certain bet that if you turn on the radio his name will be mentioned within three minutes, no matter the hour of day or night, either in a song about him, a musical setting...
Died. Sant Fateh Singh, 61, leader of India's 8,000,000 Sikhs during their separatist movement in the '60s; of a heart attack; in Amritsar, India. As spiritual and political guru of the Sikhs, a monotheistic cult concentrated in India's Punjab region, Sant Fateh Singh used public fasts and periodic threats of self-immolation to pressure the central government to grant his people statehood within the Indian federal system...
...photographer who had subjected the hallucinated blankness of urban life, mostly in and around New York, where she was born and lived, to a uniquely truthful scrutiny, like Eurydice with a lens in the tunnel to Hades. A year has passed, and now Arbus is as much a cult figure as Sylvia Plath; a collection of her photographs is due to be published this fall, and the Museum of Modern Art has given her a posthumous retrospective. It is by far the most moving show in what, to date, has been a generally boring art season in Manhattan. For Arbus...
...students make a conscious effort to dispel this image of mystical asceticism. They explain in lectures that while the technique "is as ancient as mankind." Transcendental Meditation differs significantly from the practices of other groups in the contemporary American spiritual renaissance. TM is not a religion or a cult, but a practical mental technique easily learned...