Word: occultations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...perhaps by using some of the arts of the occult, she actually won a seat, beating out the University's official candidates. All because of a few Reece's peanut butter cups...
Oddly enough, King's unsettling plots rarely work on film, perhaps because occult scenarios are best played in the Skull Cinema. On a real screen his lethally gifted children often turn out to be amateurish performers; the floodlighted hotel is about as frightening as the set of a Fred Astaire musical; and the rabid Saint Bernard seems only a benign cartoon of the Hound of the Baskervilles. King professes to be satisfied with many of the movie adaptations, except for The Shining ("Stanley Kubrick's stated purpose was to make a horror picture, and I don't think he understood...
...called "Art and Alchemy." It was curated (if that is the word) by Arturo Schwarz, an Italian art dealer whose purplish prose has long been one of the hazards of Marcel Duchamp scholarship. Alchemy sought to change base metals into gold and silver. More broadly, it embraced astrology and occult religion, being founded on the picture of a fourelement universe (air, water, fire and earth) proposed by Empedocles in the 5th century B.C. There was an early link between alchemy, technology and art, since ancient glassblowers and metalworkers were always trying to make base stuff look like gold and silver...
...latest published by guess who. Right next door, The Thomas More Book Shop (Holyoke Center) stocks religious texts. For less classical religious titles, Shambhala Booksellers (58 JFK St.) the Dawn Horse Bookstore (99 Mt. Auburn St.) and Sky Light Books (111 Mt. Auburn St.) have sixties-style spirituality and occult titles. These stores provide electronic music and incense to enhance the browsing atmosphere...
Weld Hall's reputation as the center of Harvard's occult has been revived by the sighting of a ghost in one of its rooms...