Word: mediumsized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This was "Twentieth Century Folk Mass," the product of one Fr. Geoffrey Beaumont, which has recently been recorded by the highly competent orchestra of Frank Weir (who is a sort of British Percy Faith). The Anglican service has been provided with music more usually associated with the world of TV...
Brazilian spiritism has its European origins as well. Inspired by the lore of mediums and table-rapping in the books of Frenchman Allan Kardec, the Brazilian Spiritual Federation was founded 74 years ago, now claims 3,600 centers throughout the country. In the 1950 census some 900,000 Brazilians declared...
Author Ford writes with complete conviction of his own psychic powers. At his own seances, spirits of the dead ("discarnates," he calls them) manifest themselves through Ford. No historic figures have appeared at Ford's beck and call, and he is suspicious of mediums who claim they can get...
¶ "The U.S. Government turns its Chief Executives out to grass. They're just allowed to starve or-in fact, sometimes they're tempted to become advertising mediums . . . Two or three of our Presidents practically starved to death because they wouldn't do that ... If I hadn...
¶ Producer David (Armstrong Circle Theater) Susskind rasped that they are "too flippant, too cursory, too gossipy, not constructive enough, and not important enough to create a body of critical judgment on one of the most important mediums ever invented."