Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...GHOST IN THE MACHINE, by Arthur Koestler. The novelist, journalist and philosopher constructs a brilliant brief against the scientific establishment, asserting that man is more than the sum of natural forces...
...correct an obviously bona fide error of your reviewer of The Ghost in the Machine [March 1]? The term "schi-zophysiology," intended to indicate the mental condition of Homo sapiens, was not coined by me, but by Dr. Paul MacLean of the National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Md. The speculative conclusions of the book are my own responsibility, but the neurophysiological evidence on which they are based is derived from the Papez-MacLean theory of emotions...
...GHOST IN THE MACHINE, by Arthur Koestler. The novelist, journalist and philosopher constructs a brilliant brief against the scientific establishment, asserting that man is more than the sum of natural forces...
...people concerned about the permanency of material things," asks Conner, "when they themselves may not be here tomorrow" His entire output illustrates the question, picturing death in life, the swift passage of beauty as an integral part of growth, with a chilly poetry that haunts the viewer like the ghost of Savonarola. Crucifixion, a 7-ft.-high cross with a black, rotting cadaver, skeined by a cobweb of raveled nylon stockings, comments acridly both on the original sacrifice and its loss of contemporary meaning, while lesser works recall that Conner tried marijuana in the early 1960s...
...Hamlet deep in the mind of its characters, which, it may be argued, was Shakespeare's intent. The results are uneven, but dazzling and convincing at their best. Papp has drastically shortened the play to a running time of under two hours, compressing both plot and characters. The ghost is presented as an antic extension of Hamlet's own ego - epitomized in one scene in which Hamlet becomes a ventriloquist's dummy on his father's knee. Later, Hamlet also turns up as the Gravedigger, hiding behind a Latin accent; in this guise he delivers...