Word: magics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that, it seems, is Cox's point. It's time to welcome magical mystery back into the world. (Could that chain link fence then represent the limitations of the human situation? C'est possible.) Except that Godspell's magic seems to stem from a much more earthly source. Godspell is more about show bizz than it is about Christ. All those allusions inevitably take their toll; the message is overwhelmed by the medium. John-Michael Tebelak, who conceived the show (as part of a Masters program at Carnegie Tech, no less), and Nina Faso, who directed this Boston production, have...
...were the advertising geniuses. The three main ones that Sanders mentions are the Process Church of the Final Judgement (better known to Cambridge residents as just "The Process."); the Solar Lodge of the Ordo Temple Orientis, who drink blood, hate blacks, and religiously indulge in sado-sodo sex and magic; and the Kirke Order of Dog Blood, which means just what it says. Of the three, only the Process has been shown by Sanders to have even a tenuous connection to Manson, which is beside the point, for the incredible weirdness manifested by them in their earlier years...
Such scenes are repeated in other cities, epiphanies of the old Kennedy magic. They confirm what all pollsters and politicians know?that against all expectations of two years ago, Edward Moore Kennedy has become a compelling if not predictable presence in the 1972 presidential race. Insistently disavowing any interest in running, shadowed by that night at Chappaquiddick, the last Kennedy brother must nonetheless be regarded as a major candidate for the Democratic nomination...
...primary. In the end it is conceivable that 1972 might turn into a personality contest between Ted Kennedy and Richard Nixon?the flawed Democratic star, damaged by Chappaquiddick, going against the often awkward but immensely experienced incumbent. If so, the nation will then find out how much of the magic is Teddy Kennedy...
Sister No. 3 and her husband have reached a silver wedding anniversary that obviously isn't polished. But if they've lost the magic, they've kept the mirth, at least until each begins quizzing the other about extramarital affairs. The mother of this trio is a salty old Irish Catholic biddy who has one dying wish: that her Dutch common-law husband make an honest wife of her before a priest...