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...growing vogue in Paris at the time was for occult imagery, Rosicrucianism, superstition, nuance-anything but the aim of pointillism, which was to state and quantify visual sensation as "objectively" as possible...
...personalities often lead to mysterious deaths in Spark's worlds. She does not, however, create repetitively leaden conflicts between the bold and the puny. Power is ephemeral--it is never the sole right of an individual. "It is all demonology and to do with creatures of air." Ronald, sometime occult victor and sometimes victim in The Bachelors, observes, as the wheels of power spin dizzily about his head, whirring and clicking, bobbing back and forth with no point but endless effect...
...sweeping denunciation of what he called "occult economic experiments on the American people." AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland charged last night that the Reagan budget "helps the wealthy at the expense of middle-class workers and the poor, comforts the comfortable, and afflicts the afflicted...
...more important question of Madame Blavatsky's occult powers, Biographer Meade takes a view that will seem evenhanded to most readers who are not Theosophists (the society persists throughout the world, including New York City, where it was founded, Lon don, where Blavatsky had her wildest suc cess, and Adyar, a suburb of Madras, where she set up her headquarters). The Victorian age had a great hankering for table rapping, poltergeists, spirit writing and spooks of all sorts. H.P.B. was a fair ly good parlor conjurer (she learned some of her tricks from a Coptic magician in Cairo...
Stephen King, 32, is the hottest author of supernatural-occult novels around...