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...sisters, though they later went on tour to confess that their apparent psychic powers were an "absolute fraud," really started something. By 1854 (while the Fox sisters were still "psychic"), 15,000 earnest believers had signed a petition demanding that Congress appoint a committee of scientists to investigate such phenomena.* And belief in spiritualism continues to flourish. This month, Britain's House of Commons gravely read for the second time a bill to protect "genuine" mediums by repealing the Witchcraft...
...minor literary phenomena of the '40s was the rise of the utterly self-assured, or cold-poached-eye school of female novelists. Such gifted writers as Mary McCarthy (The Oasis) and Jean...
...this press freedom. He told New York Compass Writer I. F. Stone that "anybody . could say whatever he wanted to in Yugoslavia . . . nobody was punished for saying what he pleased . . ." and that "it could be seen in Yugoslavia that [the government] tried to encourage criticism of all negative phenomena...
Tito even took the implied advice of Copic and Dzumhur. By decree, he stripped the luxurious commissars of such negative phenomena as their PX cards, gas rations, special food and clothing allowances, villas and other amenities (TIME...
...seemed that in criticizing the negative phenomena of Yugoslavia, Copic and Dzumhur had become negative phenomena themselves...