Word: cults
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Madness Cult...
...feel compelled to disagree that thinking has become a bad habit [Essay, "The New Cult of Madness," March...
...East Germans decide to champion her cause? Although Angela Davis is a plausible enough successor to Che Guevara as an ideal Communist martyr, and undoubtedly evokes sympathy from many German leftists, the real explanation for the growth of her cult lies in the shifting pattern of East-West relations. Until recently the East German regime concentrated its propaganda attacks on West Germany, whose free society and economic prosperity have for years exerted an almost irresistible magnetism on Germany's poorer half. In the past year, however, as Moscow and Bonn have sought to establish better relations, East Germany...
...vote for me, God will be angry and you will go to hell." That was the imperative campaign slogan adopted by two candidates, who also happened to be pastors. A leader of the popular "cargo cult," which preaches that some day a fleet of airplanes will bring the white man's goods to deserving natives, also invoked the Almighty. He assured voters that he had been nominated by God to be the first President of Papua New Guinea. A Bougainville Island sorcerer held a conjuring ceremony to make the election go away, so that the spirits of islanders...
Against such living death, Brower thrusts Simon Moro, an aging horror-film actor and cinema-cult figure. His old films, Ghoulgantua, Gila Man, etc., are classics. Many have been severely cut, or shelved, for reasons of taste. A Moro film in which the monster gets the girl is as unacceptable to the public as a cartoon cat who catches and lustily devours the mouse...