Word: occultation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...refer to research as the "occult art of head-candling." This statement does not make it any easier to win acceptance among client and agency executives for a fact-based method of carrying on work long since accepted by other business enterprises...
...campaign trail, the ex-President looked and sounded like the old Quadros; so sure was he of victory that he introduced himself at rallies as "your governor." But the erratic, wild-haired Quadros, who says that "occult forces" drove him from the presidency, did not wow the voters as he had before. Favoring a predictable politician over the unpredictable one, they gave the lead to a somewhat shopworn old figure named Adhemar de Barros, whose scandal-tainted state administration was turned out by Quadros eight years ago. A Quadros aide passed word that the ex-President was again considering...
...wife and child, and for the next few years he and Rimbaud loved and fought all over northern France. England and Belgium. During this period, Rimbaud wrote his best poems, The Illuminations, which combined a child's joy in nature with the hallucinations of a youth dabbling in occult sciences and dope: naivete, depravity and delusions were fused into poems that might be the joint work of Orpheus, Freud and Hans Christian Andersen...
...Dracula's Daughter for example, was in every way an exceptional film. Made in the 1930's, it is limited in cinematographic technique, but its brilliant characterizations and universal theme of man's helplessness in a hostile universe give it a quality of genius. Professor von Helping, the German occult scholar and vampire expert, embodies the intellectual's plight of being disregarded by society. Otto Krueger turns in an admirable performance as the sensitive young psychiatrist who knows he is unable to understand or mediate the deeper workings of the mind. And above all is the towering tragic figure...
...Koestler has devoted the larger part of the book's chapters on India to four contemporary Hindu saints and the physical practices of Yoga. The author's preoccupation with the mystic and the occult, dominates the discussion of India, and there is little real consideration of deeper Indian thought. The only deductions which Mr. Koestler draws from his study of the country are some wide sociological generalizations about its people...