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...heart of every great show-business career is an enigma. No matter how manifest a performer's talent, no matter how assiduously he courts his fans, there remains a puzzlement: In a fragmented and fickle world, what accounts for enormous, enduring popularity...
...while Moore does say that her crystals can be used for scrying--or predicting upcoming events, in occult lingo--she argues that crystals serve a more important function "by drawing energy from the unmanifest to the manifest [and] getting in touch with the deep stuff within...
According to Slaby, bullying tendencies, if they are not cured, can manifest themselves later in juvenile delinquency and criminal acts...
...Wilson mused about the persistence of ghost stories: "What is the reason, then -- in these days when a lonely country house is likely to be equipped with electric light, radio and telephone -- for our returning to these antiquated tales? . . . First, the longing for mystic experience which seems always to manifest itself in periods of social confusion . . . Second, the instinct to inoculate ourselves against panic at the real horrors loose on the earth...
...radiates tolerant good humor. For all of Phillip's flaws, he is a keen observer, witty monologist and an adept at anecdotes. He recalls, for example, the fate of another old Memphis widower who attempted to take a second wife: "When Mr. Joel's intention to remarry was made manifest he was actually hauled into court by his own children. (His sons were all lawyers, unhappily for him.) And there in court . . . Mr. Joel's sons had their father declared non compos mentis. Those middle-aged lawyer sons were able to achieve this even though a host of Mr. Joel...