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"With Moricand I entered new waters. Moricand was not only an astrologer and a scholar steeped in the hermetic philosophies, but an occultist . . . Rather tall, well built, broad-shouldered, heavy and slow in his movements, he might have been taken for a descendant of the American Indian family . . . Perhaps the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sour Orange Juice | 8/13/1956 | See Source »

A rival to the Pudding was the Institute of 1770, an organization devoted chiefly to oratory. The club was also dubbed "The Speaking Club," but since the group wished to keep its nature secret to non-members, the name was dropped. During the first half of the nineteenth century, clubs...

Author: By Arthur J. Langgutlr, | Title: Eleven Final Clubs: From Pig To Bat | 12/9/1953 | See Source »

316 Devils. Many a son has reacted to parental righteousness by going wrong. But Aleister Crowley is one of the few who deliberately devoted a lifetime to creating a "religion" out of every vice in the catalogue. At 14, he seduced the kitchen maid while his mother was at church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wickedest Man in the World | 10/13/1952 | See Source »

The major question that education must face, in short, is God, for "if God is the sovereign fact of life, God is the sovereign fact for education . . . Education cannot live under any hermetic seal, but only under the countersign of man's nature and destiny. If God is, education...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Great Evasion | 5/19/1952 | See Source »

Boschesque crustaceans of his hermetic imagination to caress the tentacular algae of his subaqueous and electrified impudicity or the nacreous and colubrine doves of a psychosomatic idealism to circle in simmering syndromes the facades of a palladian narcissism." Yet he can go from there to a superb review of William...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Caviar for the General | 11/20/1950 | See Source »

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