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Word: mediums (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...least one illegitimate son, and stage-managed seances to "prove" her claims to supernatural powers. Granddaughter of a Russian princess, she was married off to a czarist general at the age of 16, but deserted him after three months and eventually showed up in Cairo as a psychic medium. After immigrating to the U.S. in 1874, she took up with a former Civil War staff colonel named Henry Steel Olcott, persuaded him to help her found the theosophist society the following year-and spent the rest of her life writing the society's doctrine. Controversial wherever she went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theosophy: Cult of the Occult | 7/19/1968 | See Source »

...have been just as good and less pretentious to have actually used a piano, bells, etc. instead of reproducing them by guitar? The answer is of course that the electric guitar is to rock-blues music what the violin is to classical music--the supreme voice of the medium...

Author: By Salahuddin I. Imam, | Title: The Jeff Beck Group | 7/5/1968 | See Source »

...Stassen, according to friends, is as implacable "as a medium tank." Ponderous and humorless, he travels the country by airliner and rented cars to confront an electorate that does not care. To him, running for President seems to be somewhere between a hobby and a quirk. "He has this blind spot," said a friend, "this assumption that he knows more than anybody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Quixote Candidate | 7/5/1968 | See Source »

Rock performances, immediate and blaring, are the heart of the medium. The Beatles and Dylan succeed in spite of (and not because of) the fact that we will never get to hear them in the stark pulsating flesh. The power of the new music is precisely that it is sometimes able to transform a particular event into a permanent influence--one to blunt the hard edges that each of us carefully cultivates...

Author: By Salahuddin I. Imam, | Title: Earth Opera | 7/1/1968 | See Source »

...Jews to emigrate to Israel. The very fact that the Moscow rabbi was in the U.S. trying to "establish contact" with U.S. Jewry suggests that some of the charges of anti-Semitism were beginning to bother the Russians. As he held court in his suite in Manhattan's medium-posh Essex House, the rabbi reiterated two basic arguments, both undeniable-as far as they went. Anti-Semitism exists outside Russia, too, he said, and Russian Jews today are better off than in czarist times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Judaism: The Rabbi from Moscow | 6/28/1968 | See Source »

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