Word: psychics
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...temptation to liken them to composers, setting both grandmasters and musicians in parallel hierarchies. Capablanca--"pure, classic, elegant... yet capable of demonic force in his great moments... the complete technician" is the Mozart of chess, and Alekhine, "a nervous tiger who stalked his prey with involuntary physical twitchings and psychic lust" is Wagner. Fischer, Schonberg asserts, surpasses even Wagner in terms of "monomania...
...correspondent at the Fischer-Spassky title match in Reykjavik in 1972, and he devotes nearly 50 of 300 pages to Bobby. Schonberg is more a victim to Bobby than Spassky. Fischer, he writes, was "party to the most hysterical theatrics since the great days of King Lear." Fischer represents "psychic murder." Part of a player who loses to Fischer "has been devoured, and he is that much less a whole...
Like eager quiz-show contestants, Zed and Boorman are not bashful about flaunting their education. Bolstered by his psychic seminar. Zed drops quotes from Ecdesiastes, T.S. Eliot and Nietzsche, whose idea of a superman he now suggests. For himself, Boorman borrows -and cunningly acknowledges-a crucial image from L. Frank Baum's Wizard of Oz. The trouble is that none of these sources is assimilated; they are like footnotes without a source. Fortunately there are some bright intervals of self-deprecatory humor that lighten the occasional pomposity of the material...
...artist who reconstructs Venetian churches, and he has little need to be articulate. His emotions, and those of Julie Christie, as his wife, are presented through imagery. This is ostensibly a film about second sight, but its greatest scenes have to do more with the psychological than the psychic--the way the characters, and the camera, look at things; the love scene full of remembrances. The visual events of this film are the most important since The Conformist, and if on a few occasions there are slight problems with the film, it is because of problems implicit in the story...
...spirit seems to emerge anew. At each concert, the hush of anticipation, the buzz of uncertainty and the applause of recognition are extensions of young people again listening to his words and looking for their meaning. Arms linked together, swaying in unison, chanting in time to the psychic current, a generation's anthem- learned in adolescence, sung in protest but not finally understood until periods of adult crisis-is being sung once more...