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"Their colour is a diabolic die."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Muse from Africa | 7/4/1976 | See Source »

There are valid scientific objections to Martin's portrayal of possession. Skeptics note that in the past, both physical and mental diseases have been mis-diagnosed as demonic possession; these range from psychiatric disorders like paranoia and schizophrenia to diseases which affect the nervous system. Parapsychologists working with ESP, telekinesis...

Author: By Jefferson M. Flanders, | Title: Out, Out Damn Spot | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

Prokofiev's opera might as well have been called Peace and War. It starts well along in the Tolstoy novel, with Prince Andrei Bolkonsky on a visit to Count Rostov's country estate, musing on the seeming emptiness of his life, then discovering Rostov's beautiful daughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Battle for the Fatherland | 7/21/1975 | See Source »

Alexander Dolgun was only seven years old when his parents took him from Brooklyn to Moscow in 1933. But time after time, as the whole diabolic system of the Gulag conspired to rob him of his humanity, Dolgun managed to summon up a life-giving vision of America. With his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dear America | 6/2/1975 | See Source »

Freud cures Holmes and it is not long before they discover an adventure to involve both their powers. A wronged and beautiful American innocent leads them quickly to a scarred and diabolic German. Holmes realizes that the fate of Europe hangs in the balance, as the evil man is scheming...

Author: By Philip Weiss, | Title: The Adventure of the Addled Amanuensis | 11/11/1974 | See Source »

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