Word: ouija
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Karl Marx, who in spirit presided over this period, is introduced in a characteristically oblique Powell way. He makes his appearance over a ouija board (planchette in Britain) at a seance conducted by Myra Erdleigh, a figure like T. S. Eliot's "Madame Sosostris, famous clairvoyante," said to be "the wisest woman in Europe." She warns of the planchette: "The things it writes cause such a lot of bad feeling sometimes." The board says that "Karl is not pleased" and, ominously, "Force is the midwife."* Thus the bewhiskered ghost of Marx sets Jenkins' friends whirling about...
Groups representting each dormitory will sing one original song. Names of the judges have been carefully concealed to avoid bribes, but careful use of the Ouija Board reveals that one will be dean of residence Emily Lacey '49. The prizes are also un-announced...
...Mills College's Lisser Hall Auditorium, the audience gaped at the Partch instruments onstage. Among them: a "harmonic canon," which looked like a Ouija board with 44 strings and movable bridges, and a "marimba eroica," with keys as large as ironing boards. From a gallows-like frame hung "cloud-chamber bowls"; Partch had salvaged them from the discards of the University of California radiation laboratory. He added an ordinary clarinet and saxophone (Partch has not yet learned how to adapt wind instruments to his scale), and a special cello and bass. An added dash of unconventionality: the student musicians...
...week. The Paris Trib's cable tolls were in keeping with the princely salaries it paid its staff: a fat 50 words of variegated news arrived from America each night. Once Jim was handed a flimsy containing the line, "Christy Mathewson died Saranac," and from memory and by Ouija board wrote a column obituary on the great New York Giants pitcher...