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...1940s the best of his lavish literary output (about 60 novels, short stories and plays) was re-issued and re-evaluated. Though it provoked its share of cultist nonsense, the rediscovery of James placed him firmly where he had always neglectedly been, at the hard core of great American novel writing along with the other 19th century greats, Hawthorne, Melville and Mark Twain. Over and above the others, James proved to be an enlightening bridge to the greatest of 20th century writing. In his psychological probings, he prefigured Proust's monumental Remembrance of Things Past. And in his "wonder...
...Methodists, Presbyterians, Lutherans, etc. "[Suppose] a Methodist woman is taken with a severe case of neuritis. Her Roman Catholic friend will light a candle and make a novena for her healing. Her Christian Science friend will send her literature telling her how to remove the consciousness of pain. Her cultist friend will give her an 'anointed cloth' to be laid on the afflicted part. Perhaps after a while, her pastor . . . comes to visit. The conversation is light and encouraging. Before he leaves, he offers a vague prayer for her healing. If she were to stand up at that...
Edna Rose Ritchings, "celestial" white wife of Negro Cultist Father Divine, told Ebony magazine that many people "wonder if we are happy together living lives of purity and chastity . . ." Wrote Mother Divine: "I am as virtuous today as the day Father took me unto himself as his spotless bride ... To be daily in the presence... is the most glorious privilege any human being could have ... I am a sample and example for all to copy if they desire to be supernaturally and eternally blessed . . . Father Divine ... is greater than any atomic or hydrogen bomb...
True Story, Liberty and the New York Evening Graphic (better known as the "porno-Graphic") had slipped from his aging grasp long ago. But for 50 years, Health Cultist Macfadden has remained as devoted to New Physical Culture, his first & last magazine, as he is to buttermilk, raw carrots and cottage cheese salad. Deep in the red, the gaudy bimonthly has done little to deserve his affection. More than 250,000 readers have paid $60 a set for Macfadden's Encyclopedia of Health and Physical Culture, an eight-volume guide to diet, disease and happy sex relations. Only...
Expatriate Raymond Duncan, the late Dancer Isadora's creaky, Hellenoid brother, long one of the sights of Paris (see cut), arrived in the U.S. to spend a year celebrating his 75th birthday. With the Attic cultist came a member of the faithful whom he introduced as Mrs. Aia Bertrand, "a sort of Svengali." He planned to put on his own opera ("a comic tragedy") in Manhattan's Town Hall, in which he would insure uniform quality by playing all the roles. Admission: free...