Word: philo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Boris Karloff 's film impersonations or through such burlesques as the TV sitcom The Munsters and Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein. As this collection of twelve essays suggests, though, Mary Shelley's novel is a surprisingly open-ended source of disturbing, even terrifying implications. Its awkwardness and philo sophical uncertainties mark Frankenstein as the first and most powerful modern myth, not a pure Jungian river flowing through the collective unconscious but a polluted industrial spillway...
...Cameron, a Canadian guitarist, fiddler and folksinger who does not now, nor has he ever, advertised Timex watches, does his thing at Passim November 8; you can also hear him in concert with Jean Redpath Saturday at 10 a.m. on WGBH-FM. Wednesday, November 9 through Saturday, November 13, Philo recording artists U. Utah Phillips and Rosalie Sorrels sing and tell stories. The Wednesday show starts...
...clue to the enduring fascination of Sherlock Holmes. He has the mythic quality of a seer. He is a master illusionist of the mind, a cerebral magician. He simply does not belong in the ordinary annals of sleuthdom. Even such outstanding detectives as Nero Wolfe, Inspector Maigret and Philo Vance pile up and sift the facts. Holmes notes the evidence with something like X-ray vision and pulverizes it with weary disdain in a sentence or two. His fictional colleagues may be clever; he is clairvoyant...
Renowned as one of the world's foremost scholars in comparative religion and philosophy, Wolfson completed major works on Crescas, Aristotle, Spinoza, Philo and Christian philosophers from Paul to Augustine...
...atmosphere on Inner Sanctum and Lights Out -programs that featured echo chambers, creaking doors and the indelible clack of skeletons rising from granite tombs. Dashiell Hammett's detectives, Sam Spade, The Thin Man and The Fat Man, gave audiences a private eye and earful; other ops-Philip Marlowe, Philo Vance and Martin Kane-were even more hardboiled. Ben Hecht himself could not glamorize the press as well as oldtime radio. Britt Reid (the true identity of the Green Hornet) was a newspaperman; so, for that matter, was Clark Kent, Superman in mufti. Front Page Farrell had an adventure...