Word: worshiped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harris mannerisms have not palled on you, attend and worship. After her own fashion, she is superb. She does a highly affecting monologue on the ghastly, ghostly ordeal of Mary Lincoln's life abroad. She watches her son Tad dying and dies herself very prettily...
...Information is somehow opposed to "culture." For all the pretense of entering the world out there, however, conceptual art remains inexorably culture-bound. Its very existence hinges on the privileged status of art itself, a status drilled into the world audience by decades of institutional art-worship. No matter how nugatory an event or object seems, it is nevertheless special, being art. And within this protective box, the conceptual artist-as Sculptor Robert Smithson acerbically put it-disports himself "like a B.F. Skinner rat doing his 'tough' little tricks...
...Maharaj Ji's mother and three older brothers literally worship him, kissing his "lotus feet" whenever they are in his presence. To them as to his other followers, he is the "Perfect Master" and "Lord of the Universe." By their testimony, the Maharaj Ji began, while still a toddler, to deliver inspired satsangs (sermons)-and to amaze the devotees of his father (then the Perfect Master) by awakening them in the morning with the exhortation, "Get up, get up. Do meditation! If you don't, I will beat you with a stick...
...Sheed and Kanfer come swiftly (and recently) to mind. But these men then moved into the different fields to which they were committed even while they handled their film chores. Sadly, Sarris hasn't dealt with anything but movies, most of the time in a tone of directorial hero-worship. That he has made a business on the basis of pop culture dreams and apologia is a phenomenon that only a youthful art and industry--just reaching its maturity in America--could support...
...most criticized aspect of rescue missions is the almost universally required attendance at worship services, a sort of sing-for-your-supper attitude But mission directors insist that their spiritual work is far more important than the food and shelter they offer "Christ spoke to 5,000 people all day before he fed them," says Jerry Dunn. "If a man is really hungry we will feed him, but we don't apologize for requiring attendance at worship. If we don't give them a foundation to build their lives on, we give them nothing...