Word: illuminati
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what they do not possess -- especially not the Caprichos and the Disasters of War -- is the sense of intellectual decorum and poise that the well-born, French-reading illuminati of Madrid preferred the discourse of images to have. Goya was not good at optimistic allegory. His large painting of the adoption of the liberal constitution of 1812 -- the constitution as a maiden in white presented by Father Time while pretty Clio, the muse of history, takes notes -- is one of his few real pictorial failures...
...forces of darkness. The agents of Satan, he rants, include the Kennedys, Sears, Roebuck, the Rothschilds and the Council on Foreign Relations. On and on the babble continues: "Elton John and the Beatles actually sang in the secret language of witches . . . The pyramid on the dollar bill was the Illuminati's seal: The blocks of stone symbolized its organization...
...bestseller The Great Quotations, Thoughts is a compilation of highlights from the words and wisdom of the world's greatest thinkers. Tops in this cerebral hall of fame is Sigmund Freud, who gets 20 out of 750 pages, followed closely by Carl Jung and Alfred Adler. Any disgruntled illuminati who feel they were left out may yet turn up in Seldes' next book, tentatively titled Adventures with People: The Noted, the Notorious and the Three S.O.B.s...