Word: psychics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...PSYCHIC MOLD. Historians have long contended that a totalitarian system developed in Russia because its people were too servile to enjoy the blessings of democracy. Anyone who has watched as waves of debate roar through the chamber of the Congress of People's Deputies knows that this is simply not true. The Russian is more than a democrat; in his heart of hearts, he is an anarchist. Russia's rulers have lived in constant dread of the kind of spontaneous, popular uprisings that troubled the czarist era and set off the Bolshevik Revolution. After the communists came to power, others...
...lurks underneath. Many Russians light candles in church nowadays the way they formerly paid their Communist Party dues -- as a kind of insurance, just in case. Belief in miracles remains strong in a nation once fervently dedicated to the scientific method. How else to explain the extraordinary following of psychic healers like Anatoli Kashpirovsky and Alan Chumak, who held audiences spellbound with their televised seances a few years ago? Even sophisticated Muscovites rushed to buy supposedly energized issues of newspapers and placed jars of water by their TV screens to absorb the healing rays of these video shamans...
...dark perfection of his sin and then writhing in rather stagey shame for his moral awfulness. This foppish introspection fogs the early chapters of the present novel. But just before the reader's eyes glaze over, the willful and impulsive Lestat tangles with a mortal con man whose extraordinary psychic powers let him cheat the vampire out of his demonic, enormously powerful body...
...thought and his electrifying oratory style. For West, Malcolm articulated outrage at "the sheer absurdity that confronts human beings of African descent in this country--the incessant assaults on Black intelligence, beauty, character and possibility." With his trademark eloquence, West elucidates how that rage served to perform a "Black psychic conversion," a defiant re-evaluation of the self that is free of American racist values. West argues convincingly that it is this anger that makes Malcolm X such a vital figure today...
...reason is simple. Like the Civil War, Vietnam pitted Americans against each other. Even though the military engagements took place far away and long ago, the political and psychic scars on the home front will not heal. By the end of the century, Americans will probably remember the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the disintegration of the U.S.S.R. as they now look back on Normandy and Iwo Jima -- climactic moments in triumphs for Our Side that have passed into history...