Word: psychically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bemused, nightmarish thrillers he has concocted over the years have accomplished more than the director ever intended, perhaps even imagined. Hitchcock will admit to no loftier ambition than entertainment. Nonetheless, his best movies-The Wrong Man, Strangers on a Train, Vertigo, Psycho, The Birds-reach into deep pockets of psychic guilt, creating not only a pleasant, fleeting rush of terror in an audience but also a lingering, fixed anxiety. He is a technical master. But the tense economy of his best scenes, the closely calibrated dynamics of his editing, have also shaped the way people look at films...
...Psychic Distance. Johnson first met Kearns at a party for White House Fellows in the spring of 1967. A Ph.D. candidate at Harvard, she had been selected for the program even though she had written a magazine article entitled "How to Remove L.B.J. in 1968." When it was Kearns' turn to dance with the President, he boasted that Harvard men "can't dance like I'm dancing now." She obviously waltzed her way into his affections, because after working for several months in the Labor Department, Johnson had her transferred to the White House. As he prepared...
...mother, and so he unburdened himself of dreams, ambitions and regrets that he had confided, apparently, to no one else. He hoped that she would salvage his reputation at Harvard, citadel of real and imagined enemies. But Kearns was too well trained on alien terrain and kept her psychic distance from her overwhelming subject. Imbued with some of the 1960s suspicions of practical politics, she is fair to L.B.J. but unfailingly cool. To her, Johnson is a monstrous amalgam of political good and evil, worthy of meticulous dissection. Her scalpel is cutting, and the wounds inflicted will not be easily...
...scientific objections to Martin's portrayal of possession. Skeptics note that in the past, both physical and mental diseases have been mis-diagnosed as demonic possession; these range from psychiatric disorders like paranoia and schizophrenia to diseases which affect the nervous system. Parapsychologists working with ESP, telekinesis and other psychic phenomena can also raise questions about the demonic origins of the possessed individual's reputed ability to mentally hurl objects around and read minds. Martin tries to deal with this criticism; one of the exorcists challenges a group of parapsychologists dabbling in astral travel and reincarnation by asking whether...
Rubin, who was in Cambridge to promote his new book, said he believes a "psychic transformation" of the individual must precede political change. "I hope be a consciousness-sharer, not a leader," he said, "acting as a bridge between the political radical left and the spiritual consciousness movement...