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...developed mystical powers during years of study among holy men in India. She contends that "trance mediums" have enabled her to recall past lives. Although she privately acknowledges that she encountered a number of frauds, the book's exuberant tone suggests that almost any spiritual visionary, from William Blake to Edgar Cayce, can win her wholehearted faith...
...literary scholarship, and was denied her first lover, a Jew. Though both daughters ultimately escaped from their palatial prisons, they remain damaged women, their reminiscences suffused with the anguish of unrequited love. Most pitifully, Antoinette has dedicated her lamentable life story "with loving remembrance" of Sam Giancana. -By Patricia Blake...
...Patricia Blake...
...October 1916, his long-awaited new novel, appears in Russian next fall and in English in 1985, will it be known whether the air of freedom has proved too thin for this great writer. Certainly it has provided the breath of life for many of his compatriots. - By Patricia Blake...
...music is a different matter. MacDermot's stylistic profligacy is welded by an underlying bluesy harmony. This is established early in Hi Ya Kid, a wistful exchange between young Ulysses Macauley (Josh Blake) and a passing black trainman (David Johnson), and consolidated later in a gentle gospel anthem for the whole town, Beautiful Music. The pop-music style of the '40s is nostalgically evoked in The Birds, a soft-shoe love song for the assistant telegraph operator, Spangler (Rex Smith), and Diana (Leata Galloway). Most effective of all is a bittersweet canonic letter duet for Marcus (Don Kehr...