Word: occulted
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...June, the Salem town council eased its rules on fortune tellers - or, to be more specific, those locals who are engaged in "the telling of fortunes, forecasting of futures, or reading the past, by means of any occult, psychic power, faculty, force, clairvoyance, cartomancy, psychometry, phrenology, spirits, tea leaves, tarot cards, scrying, coins, sticks, dice, coffee grounds, crystal gazing or other such reading, or through mediumship, seership, prophecy, augury, astrology, palmistry, necromancy, mind-reading, telepathy or other craft, art, science, talisman, charm, potion, magnetism, magnetized article or substance, or by any such similar thing...
...show. This year, they’d be right. The Pudding selected yesterday the script for its 159th annual stage production, which will open Feb. 23. The burlesque comedy, tentatively titled “The Tent Commandments,” follows a European big-top circus and its semi-occult side show. The peace among the attractions collapses, however, when it’s decreed that only one tent may be pitched in the area. “There’s an ongoing competition,” said Joshua M. Brener ’07, president of the Pudding...
...witchhunt involves attacking the powerless, a witchhunt involves a belief in the occult, a witchhunt involves magistrates who also share the belief of the people in the occult. It’s a metaphor that’s employed all too often and a very sloppy one. Surely gossip and rumor played a huge role, but it’s not as though people began deluding themselves in 1692. The people who die, the people who are sacrificed, are often powerless, often old, widowed women. Those are the people who end up being sacrificed to the fanaticism and frenzy...
...Thomas “believes,” thus endowing himself with the magical power to call on the King at a moment’s notice and defeat the giant birds, dragons, and other beasts Demurral places in his path. That this mixture of the sacred and the occult is unsatisfying should come as no surprise. It returns the novel to that familiar, faith-testing question: if the King can defeat everything, how have his enemies gained such strength? (“His ways are not your ways, his thoughts are not your thoughts...
...lost the perm and moon boots, but Napoleon Dynamite's Jon Heder still plays the outsider as an occult-bookstore worker in Just Like Heaven...