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...delivered a slugging political speech before a shouting, stomping crowd of 12,000 in the memorial auditorium. "In our party," cried the governor, "the presidential candidate doesn't go around the country endorsing candidates who violate the fundamental decencies . . ." Excoriating the "do-nothing, care-nothing, know-nothing mumbo jumbo" of the Republican Old Guard, Stevenson hammered away at one of his major campaign themes: "It is a tragedy that the Old Guard has succeeded in doing what Hitler's best generals never could do: they have captured General Eisenhower...
Sometimes the texts invoked charms and magic, sometimes mumbo-jumbo ("Mti, Mti, Mti, Mti . . ."), sometimes sheer bravado ("Heaven thunders, the earth trembles before [the king] . . ."). But they also pleaded good works on behalf of the Pharaoh ("I gave bread to the hungry, clothing to the naked, I ferried him who had no boat...
...misleading, slanted, self-serving, statistical mumbo-jumbos, pp. 13-15, TIME, June 30, stand as a monument...
...during pledge period at a frat college. It traces the course of a student through the multiple senseless humiliations and 'stunts' of "hell Week," culminating in "Hell Night." Blindfolded and dressed in sacks, the initiates are led to a sacred spot where they go through the standard candle-light mumbo-jumbo routines. Then as a final test of his worthiness, one pledge is asked to sacrifice a dog. He refuses, and subsequently starts a campus revolt against "Hell Week" with the aid of a sympathetic professor (Paul Henreid). Those who feel that this picture exagerates initiations might visit our State...
Despite its own mumbo jumbo and its deliberate lack of clarity, The Image of a Drawn Sword is a disturbing allegory: the desperate desire of Mr. Average for an existence in which love and comradeship replace tension and uncertainty. The book's elaborate use of symbolism, its bewildering time scheme in which past & present merge crazily, sharply recall the brooding of Novelist Franz Kafka. There is one important difference: Kafka's theme was man's search for God. Brooke's dazed hero would settle for something which he almost, but never quite, comes out and names...