Word: occultism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mystic. The single good film for the week deals with spiritualism. The strange and occult practices carried on in its name are "exposed" through various adventures, at which the hair, if it does not rise, at least starts off the head occasionally. The film is not a serious slaughter of spiritualistic knavery. It is mostly for entertainment. Conway Tearle helps with an admirable performance...
...Satellites I found one custom universally observed. Evidently it is a survival of some ancient tribal ceremony. Upon every occasion of rejoicing or lamentation, it doesn't matter which, the Satellites gather together to perform the mysteries of the "Passingout". For this purpose they immerse themselves in an occult liquid which possesses the incompatible qualities of both water and fire, for it looks like the one but acts like the other. What I have seen of this religious ceremony of the "Passingout" gives me excellent grounds for belief in the transmigration of souls...
...Goodwin would have it that the leniency of the courts is responsible for the severity of the speed. But for this terrifying attempt on undergraduate life, there must surely be other contributing reasons, however occult. Perhaps it is a new expression of the old antipathy between Town and Gown. There is also the hypothesis that the vicious driver, instead of being a psychopathic case, is a convert to Fundamentalism trying like a Mussulman to roar up to Heaven with the life of a Modernist for registration, license, and gate pass. Whatever the explanation, the humor of the situation is rapidly...
...which Mrs. Sedgwick touched none was more interesting than that of a white-haired, stooping man whose name is renowned as an eminent Greek scholar and an active partisan of the League of Nations-Professor Sir Gilbert Murray. The Professor, as is well known, is actively interested in the occult. Ten years ago, he en- deavored to explain telepathic phenomena as being due to a sixth sense, a view in which Mrs. Sedgwick concurred...
Meanwhile, the earnest editorialists will discover occult influences at work. Diabolic, middlemen are wringing the shekels from the consumer's pocketbook. That demon, Inefficiency, hauntre of conscientious Americans, is implicated in the plot. The credit for the improvement of the market serves even to make a president, for, according to political medicine-men, it was the jargonish singsong of the last campaign which cast the devil of bankruptcy out of the farmer's "innards...