Word: clairvoyante
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In the first of Sylvia Plath's poetry the reader watches the poet watch herself. As her work matures, her inward eye rotates ever more outward into clairvoyance, where her experience becomes transparent to her and she is able to project it into its utmost mythological and symbolic limits. In...
His name is Adam Stein, and he is a kind of W.C. Fields of the Jews. Once he was Europe's greatest clown, and more than that, a clairvoyant who could tell the history of anybody in the audience from a piece of cloth held in his hand, read...
Auden, who is now 63, has always been a cultural gamesman. Word schemes, puzzles and categories delight him. There are entries for acronyms, angelology, mnemonics, numbers, foreign phrase books. Always a zealous listmaker, he has included long entries of little-known names for woodpeckers and cuckoos and even lesser-known...
Sir: There you go, quoting Clairvoyant Maurice Woodruff on his grim predictions in McCall's magazine for the Messrs. Reagan and Agnew [March 9]. Fine. But you neglect his one really important prediction, "Richard Nixon will gain great popularity in 1970. Comes time for reelection, I guarantee that he...
A man is only 54 once, so Jackie Gleason got together with 800 or so of his closest friends for a monster birthday party at the Diplomat Hotel in Hollywood, Fla. It cost $25 a plate, but it was worth it; amid the celebration came a phone call from the...