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Only a couple of months ago Gardner Ackley, present chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, remarked that "You're soon going to hear a lot more about guidelines." Rarely has any prophet been proved so accurately occult. And last week, as Ackley and his colleagues worked on their annual economic report, they could only be aware that some changes may have to be made in both the principles and the application of the wage-price guidelines...
...novel's 582 pages. When the therapy ends, the young man seems just as silly and at least as sick as he was when it started. Fowles tries terribly hard to make the reader care about all this. He displays to advantage both an extensive culture in the occult and a singular power of imagery. Yet too often he carelessly permits that power to corrupt him: he stands too long admiring his spectacular descriptions. Fowles's faults, however, are mostly the faults of inexperience. At 39, he is a novelistic tyro, a London schoolmaster who published The Collector...
...medieval scholar and longtime (1924-50) Columbia University history professor, who in his eight-volume History of Magic and Experimental Science disputed the notion that the Middle Ages' magicians were charlatans, regarding them instead as "experimental scientists," and tracing into the 18th century a residue of the occult that affected even such logic-minded men as Sir Isaac Newton; following a stroke; in Manhattan...
...know nothing, therefore about certain occult antipathies perhaps too much...
...opaque. Two characters seem more like gods than people, gods of the modern mind. Palmer, the psychoanalyst, is the contemporary god of reason, restoring order amid emotional chaos. Honor Klein, the anthropologist, is the primordial goddess of instinct, violence, and what D. H. Lawrence called "the blood consciousness." These occult beings appear in rooms whose doors have not been opened, but a more tangible proof of godhood is their incestuous relationship, which sets them apart from the others and constitutes normal behavior only among gods. By making Honor the more powerful of the two, Miss Murdoch seems to attest...