Word: cults
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...catatonic self-control. In the second half he is the driving force of the show. "I'm Free" is a triumphant cry of joy. With that song too, Westelman begins the most difficult task before any actor in the show. Within ten minutes he jumps from total isolation to cult leadership. Without injecting more than the songs will bear, Westelman manages to convey Tommy's simple message: follow me and achieve the perfect high. His sincerity is painful...
...recording reveals the death throes of the Jim Jones cult...
Someone in the schizophrenic California-based cult, which hacked a spare living out of the Guyana soil while banking millions in secret Swiss accounts, had recorded the final 43 minutes of the colony's existence. The tape was found by a U.S. consular employee in Guyana and turned over to the FBI. Guyanese officials were given a copy. While both Guyana and the U.S. Justice Department refused to release the tape, copies somehow proliferated. The one obtained by TIME last week discloses that Jones' death decree was met with stubborn resistance as well as fatal acquiescence...
Understandably, "The Files," as it is known to the cognoscenti, has become a cult feature on college campuses everywhere. Or at least my brother watches it, and a friend of his, and the former sports editor of The Crimson. Maybe you don't believe me. Just ask Miles Kantrowitz how many polyester jackets he's sold since Rockford started. Ask Herbert T. Grierson of Grierson Pontiac how many Firebirds he's wheeled off his lot. They know. They really appreciate how cool Rockford...
...interesting thing about TIME's article "Cult Wars on Capitol Hill" [Feb. 19] was not the hearing on cults by Senator Dole, but the fact that Cynthia Slaughter reconverted to the Moonies. If a person is deprogrammed from a cult, is there anything that the Christian community can offer? Apparently Slaughter didn't think...