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...political terrain, Haig has nonetheless provided Nixon with sound advice. It was he, primarily, who talked the President into handing over at least some of the tapes demanded by Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski. But he has also made his slips. He seemed to be in contact with the occult when he announced that a "sinister force" had been responsible for the elimination of 18% minutes of conversation from one of the tapes. He seriously underestimated the outraged public reaction when the President fired Archibald Cox from his job as special prosecutor last October. As Haig ruefully admitted afterward, the move...
Composer Bernstein contends that there is a mystical relationship between the occult numerology of the kabbalah and his 50-minute score. In fact, the Dybbuk music is a bland, pseudo-modern pastiche-a murmuring of Mahler here, a shriek of Stravinsky there, stray leitmotifs of Hasidic melody to suggest ethnicity. Robbins' choreography matches the music, sometimes cliché for cliché. When the orchestra explodes in a burst of Yiddish song, dancers sway sinuously, as if at a ghetto wedding. There are great yaps of brass at Big Moments of high stress; on stage, the performers thrust splayed hands...
...FIRST fairy stories were published by Charles Perrault in 1698. He pretended that they were children's entertainment while, in reality, they were meant to be read at upper class Parisian salons. The Christian Church condemned such threatening flirtations with the occult, and this disguise provided a strategic alibi. Perrault's printed stories spread a new form of popular literature, long confined by oral tradition; until his time, printed literature usually included only Scripture and classical works. But readers treated fairy tales apologetically, so when the novel emerged a century later--and Science began to dictate reality--fantasy was forced...
Beyond the Looking Glass convinces one that the original English fairy tales were not limp, sentimental daydreams. Although dominated by a sense of childish innocence, sinister, occult and perverse notions filtered into the stories through their roots in country lore. If you take this book to a quiet place, where the noises of an increasingly cynical and materialistic world don't penetrate, it's not hard to remember the ancient magic of earth, seed, and plough...
...rising paranoia index. Need anyone be reminded of the fears and confusions that hang over from recent assassinations, wars and political scandals? It is a time that has caused -if not an actual power vacuum-at least an intense low-pressure area that readily attracts conspiracy theorists, occult mongers and alert topical novelists like Robert Lipsyte...