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...danger of overindulgence in superstition is that it breeds a kind of shortcut thinking. Already, TV commercials verge on magic: how does a deodorant differ from a love potion? Already, the incantations of New Left and New Right extremists echo the irrational chants of sinister shamans. No one has ever been hurt by tossing salt over his left shoulder; many have felt a vibration of personal peace by crying "Om!" The trouble is that superstitions, like Occam's razor, cut both ways. Before Western man gets any more mystical, perhaps he should distinguish between superstitions that destroy tranquillity...
Montreal's Leonard Cohen appears to be drifting toward the vortex of popular success. His 1966 novel, Beautiful Losers, a hallucinogenic potion of Iroquois history and art-as-psychosis, has a sizable readership among college students and literate dropouts. Cohen has been documented on an educational television film and interviewed on CBS. His recent move into folk-rock composing and singing has not gone unnoticed either. His song Suzanne, a sweetly eerie and rather self-conscious effort to be both sublimely sacred and sublimely profane, has been recorded by a number of modern minnesingers. His dark brand of sentimentality...
...likes of Gary Grant and Rock Hudson but remaining a freckle-faced iron maiden to the fadeout. In this picture, she is equipped with a husband (Patrick O'Neal), but by pouting continually, she keeps him at arm's length. Morse, drugged on her sleeping potion, never gets to make anything but frantic motions. Thus if she is no longer precisely virginal, she remains constant...
Died. Canon Felix Kir, 92, French Roman Catholic priest famed as a war hero and politician, and remembered as the namesake of a smooth potion concocted of white wine and currant or blackberry liqueur; of injuries suffered in a fall; in Dijon. Tough-minded and sharp-tongued, Kir (rhymes with hear) took over the mayoralty of Dijon (pop. 96,000) in 1940, when city officials fled the Germans, and led the local resistance throughout the war. Dijon's citizens voted him in as mayor in every election from 1945 to the present, and though he often proved a thorn...
...bouncy silliness couched in florid melody. Mirella Freni and Nicolai Gedda reproduce their entrancing Metropolitan Opera performances of two seasons ago, and they are complemented by the astonishing bass of Renato Capecchi, who combines unbelievable agility with mahogany-like richness in the role of a quack selling a love potion...