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...short, given the temper of the times, Clumly seems bound for a caricature pig-of-the-week award, or else a New Centurion's badge for meritorious service. Instead, Gardner pits poor old Clumly against the Sunlight Man, a brilliant existential philosopher, French horn player, gadfly, madman, magician, murderer, idealist and Shavian exponent of Babylonian religion and the new consciousness. But when the smoke and the rhetoric and some cadavers have been cleared away, there stands Clumly (much humbled and wiser) as, by God, some kind of confused, committed, ignorant, rumpled, preposterous champion of Western culture...
Many of Jacobson's patients regard him as a virtual magician whose treatments have been essential to their careers. Others have found the price of performance too high. Amphetamine users often become heavily dependent on the drug, which can produce the symptoms of schizophrenia. Many amphetamine users experience delusions and feelings of paranoia; some become depressed and suicidal...
...contributing editor. Later, as a senior editor, he presided over the Music, Show Business and Cinema sections, among others. Once, while gathering material for a cover story on Dick Cavett, he temporarily took over the talk program, which became "the Jesse Birnbaum Show, with Jesse's guest, Amateur Magician Dick Cavett...
BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA by Eliot Porter. Dutton. $21.95. Before the lens of noted Nature Photographer Porter, the common chipping sparrow looks as powerful and dramatic as the Owl-Magician in Swan Lake. The common flicker is seized for eternity as the extraordinarily marked bird that he is-though most country strollers only see him taking off ahead of them with a flash of white rump. In an engagingly informal text, Porter is most fascinating describing the lengths to which a bird photographer will go to get results. Once, to reach a kinglet's nest, he simply sawed...
...BECAUSE WE LIVE in such a time of dispirited confusion. Nixon has already gained the ultimate goal of the professional liar: complete and profound mystification of his audience. Like the magician, Nixon's posture of solemn, unblinking deception convinces us to suspend our critical faculties and to accept his illusion for reality. In political terms. Nixon's accomplishment has been simply this: he has convinced many of us that politics is a dirty lying business rather than that he and his friends are a dirty lying bunch. Or, put in language close to home for us here at a university...