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...have an open mind about psychic phenomena [March 4], but let us not stop exploring new ideas and thoughts, even some of the most outlandish ones. If we had stopped in days of old and said majestically, "We know it all." life wouldn't be so much fun. The world would still be flat, the seas beset by monsters, and the moon would still be cheese...
...physicist of note once told me that he found he had an overpowering urge to abandon a project of psychic research (concerned with reverse time) just when he felt that he was near a breakthrough. He had a panicky need to back away from the abyss before he was forced to confront its terrifying implications. He said: "I was scared witless that I was about to look into the face...
...Your story on psychic phenomena used my name and mentioned my book in such a way as to insinuate that I consider the phenomena hoaxes...
...berserk over a small incident-that is particularly troublesome because it must be made to look easy. Grey has worked out his character totally, from his fussy clothes to his eager, elusive eyes. When Wills floats off into a trance or plucks some bit of information out of the psychic void, it is not only true but chilling because Grey has built up to it so smartly...
...encourages a sort of collective actors' hysteria. The writing is without much enterprise; in deed, why make another movie about a police chief at all? It would have been far more interesting to use the same material for a film about Wills - that is, both a psychological and psychic speculation. But on the evidence at hand, such a project would have been beyond the range of almost everyone involved with Man on a Swing - firmly excepting Joel Grey...