Word: godhead
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...instead for a mortal span of 1,000 years, and their fallen heirs settle for progressively less. At last, in the 20th century, man realizes that his days have grown far too short. He is only a vessel of the life force that is evolving along "the path to godhead," and if civilization is to advance or even survive, he must learn to live to a riper, wiser age. Over the next 300 centuries, he begins working his way back to Adam's 1,000 years, or at least to Methuselah...
...Boston followers of the swami support themselves by taking alms and selling their magazine "Back to Godhead," which prints articles on the swami's teachings. Several members of the group hold outside jobs--one is a social worker--and contribute their pay to the temple...
...bogey that dominates the stage is an 11-ft. form sculpted out of assorted junk, an effigy caricaturing the godhead of white power as it might be conceived by the black African mind. The huge breadbox mouth flaps open to emit the platitudes of white domination, the solace of the white man's religion, the equity of the white man's law. The cast play the colonizers of Angola and the colonized interchangeably, singing Brechtian ditties that sardonically mock the oppressors and vivify the laments of the oppressed...
...David Carradine plays the Inca with marmoreal stoicism, and Shaffer gives him a primitive sign-and-grunt language that sometimes reduces the son of the sun to the son of Tondeleyo. The cynic in Pizarro becomes enthralled by the savior in Atahuallpa, who has a shining conviction that his godhead will raise him from the dead. Pizarro dreads but courts the great Inca's murder. If Atahuallpa is resurrected, might not Christ have been? Through the night, the old conquistador keeps watch over the slain god's body with desperate hope. When the Inca fails to stir, Pizarro...
...Many transmogrified their civil names into such heavenly appellations as Blessed Faithful, Sincere Determination, Philip Love Life and Perseverance Star. The rallying cry and everyday salutation for the faithful was "Peace, it's wonderful!," and even for the scores of thousands who took chastity vows and gave the Godhead all their filthy lucre, the Divine Kingdom seemed paradise enow...