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...Brugger of the Salzburg tourism office, he would be "a pop star - somewhere between Prince, Michael Jackson and Robbie Williams." There's little new about such typecasting. But over the past decade, Mozart has increasingly been placed in a role that is perhaps the most controversial of all: as healer of mind and body. In this New Age interpretation, Mozart is the ultimate composer-therapist whose music can help treat ailments ranging from acne to Alzheimer's disease and even, it is claimed, make you and your kids smarter. Some of these claims are based on science. One neurosurgeon...
...will seek out Jesse Baltram, his real father, a legendary painter who numbered Edward's mother among his many mistresses. He does not know exactly how Jesse can help him, but he feels irresistibly drawn, by a magic he claims not to believe, toward "the longed-for father, the healer, the hero-priest, the benevolent all-powerful king." No sooner does Edward conceive this idea than he receives an invitation from Jesse's wife to visit Seegard, the artist's house near a deserted stretch of English seacoast. He arrives to find himself welcomed by the wife and two beautiful...
...year of Huckleberry Finn’s publication, Rawles’ book relates the life of Jim’s remarkably resilient wife, Sadie Watson, a slave who works as a healer and a cook, among other things, as she passes between owners in the antebellum South. It is framed, plausibly, if not very originally, as a story Sadie tells to her granddaughter Marianne Libre, while, in the grand tradition of Penelope, Scheherazade and, more recently, Winona Ryder’s Finn Dodd, they make a kind of memory quilt...
Some Democratic strategists see the opportunity for a more positive message. They suggest that the verdict will confirm a yearning among voters for a healer, a candidate who can bridge that divide-someone, say, like that fellow from Hope. But Bill Clinton is apparently not the top choice for the job. A TIME/CNN poll conducted last week shows that Americans see Powell as the most likely unifier, a figure who transcends race, not a politician who exploits...
...enthusiasm, it's mesmerizing." In Japan, which he was one of the first Westerners ever to visit, Xavier's amiable manner and learned discourse is credited with helping open up the nation to outsiders. In India, he is revered by Christians, Hindus and Muslims alike as Goencho Sahib, a healer of the sick, a bringer of good fortune and?his legend taking a more modern twist?one who can bless new cars and trucks. In Malaysia, where he was known for a miraculous ability to call out the names of babies he had never met, mothers hold...