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Europeans are normally "phonographs," rational, scientific, dealing with measurable things and treating the phenomenal universe as the only real one. Mystics, mediums, the natives of Tibet, are "radios," treating the phenomenal universe as supremely unimportant, the creations of their inward visions as realities of the same quality as things in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mysticism & Manners | 8/10/1936 | See Source »

In the Genesee Valley, Author Carmer went to revival meetings where the hysterical confessions of repentant sinners ranged from the grotesque to the pathetic, where two little girls tormentedly admitted that under the excitement of the previous night's revival they had walked home with their boy friends and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New York Explored | 6/29/1936 | See Source »

Specialization in any period or genre of music has been difficult in the past except for the exceptional student. Next year, following Music 1, perquisite for concentrators, special courses are devoted to (1) periods and countries, (2) styles and mediums, (3) forms, and (4) individual composers. There is only one...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fields of Concentration | 4/29/1936 | See Source »

For those familiar with the popular literature of spiritualism, what Researcher Garland has to tell will be nothing new. He and his fellow-researchers did what they could to cramp the mediums' style, by tying them to their chairs, tacking their skirts to the floor, putting rustly newspapers on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Aged Agnostic | 4/27/1936 | See Source »

Garland's conclusion: the phenomena are inexplicable but their interpretation is too hopeful. Spiritualism naturally draws people who have been bereaved, but their faith is "a fairy story with a heartache in it." Garland thinks mediums are often sincere but are probably subconscious frauds. His guess at the queer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Aged Agnostic | 4/27/1936 | See Source »

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