Word: occultation
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...greatest expert on those teasing, furniture-tossing, ructious ghosts called poltergeists was the late British Jesuit, Father Herbert Thurston, who wrote two books and various pamphlets on the subject. Just published are two more notable studies by Roman Catholics: Shane Leslie's Ghost Book (Sheed & Ward; $3) and Occult Phenomena, by Father Alois Wiesinger, an Austrian Trappist (Newman Press...
...Loving. Such a title might be appropriate for a collection of poetry or perhaps some parables, but it is hardly a humble beginning for an essay. One has the strange sensation of being party to a Marlboro book sale where the theory of Yoga and the occult sciences of the Orient are neatly passed along in a hundred pages. This sense of condensation and over-simplification is furthered by the division of The Art of Loving into a section on the theory of love, and another on the practice of love. Fortunately Fromm has the good sense...
COUNT LUNA, by Alexander Lerne/-Holenla (252 pp.; Criferion; $4), cross-pollinates Poe and Kafka to tell two Gothic tales of the occult. The title tale, Count Luna, is set in present-day Vienna. Alexander Jessiersky, frayed scion of a shoddy aristocratic line, fears that a penniless Count Luna whom he has uninten tionally wronged will return from a concentration camp grave to exact revenge. One night he hears footsteps on the floor above his palace study, storms out and plunges a pair of scissors repeatedly into the fleeing, shadowy figure of the intruder -only to discover that...
...good friends on TIME are NATIONAL AFFAIRS Editor Max Ways and London Bureau Chief André Laguerre. A strong bond between them is their fond devotion to the ancient, if somewhat occult, science of handicapping. Ways regards Laguerre as the sage of Paris' Longchamp and London's Ascot, while Laguerre considers Ways nonpareil when it comes to picking them at New York's Belmont and Miami's Hialeah. Last week the old friends were getting ready to trade these special fields of endeavor: Laguerre is coming to the U.S. as assistant managing editor of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED...
More than that, it has created a boom in the occult. A West Coast hypnotist advertised an offer to "establish the prior existence" of all comers (at $25 an existence). Around the country, while hostesses gave "come as you were" parties and restaurants offered "reincarnation cocktails," ordinary Americans began turning up (often on TV screens) in earlier lifetimes as German leather merchants, French peasants, English princesses, and; in one case, a horse. In Shawnee, Okla., Bridey intrigued a 19-year-old newsboy so mightily that he killed himself after leaving a note that he was going to "investigate the theory...