Word: occultist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kenneth Anger, 34, is the wild man of the movement and one of its most creative craftsmen. A fanatical occultist, he practices the blood rites of devil worship and has splashed the walls of his San Francisco pad with a Nazi banner and words written in blood. Anger's notorious Scorpio Rising is a jaggedly cubistic piece of black cinema that examines the big strong she-men who gun along with the cycle cult. The movie concludes with a satanic black-jacketed bacchanal that looks like the last stages of an amphetamine nightmare...
Died. Victor Brauner, 62, French surrealist painter, a Rumanian occultist's son who painted a portrait of himself with a damaged eye in 1932, lost an eye for real in a brawl six years later, thereafter turned out scores of intense, unnerving works filled with misshapen human figures characterized by outsized, haunting eyes; of cancer; in Paris...
...claim is indisputable, but often the profundities can be confusing. On the same day, while Omarr urged his readers to "act on convictions, " a competitive occultist, Clay R. Pollan, told his readers to "heed good advice." Before the 1956 presidential campaign, Constella-the nom de plume for a sometime poet named Shirley Spencer - rashly predicted that Eisenhower would not be a candidate for re-election and that the election would go to a Democrat, and then named him: Averell Harriman...