Word: psyching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hardly be a biographer's privilege, but Thomas claims it. He chooses to see her as a showman; but she was also a shaman, one of the charged and chosen few in whom the divine and the demonic hold alarming dialogue. There was a chance here to deep-psych a deplorable genius and put calipers to the phenomenon of religious fervor. Because Thomas passed it up, Aimee emerges as a personality who overflows the scope of the book. At her death she left (to her loyal son Rolf) an entire church-which now claims more than 193,000 members...
College proved like too much. Or not enough. "I split before that scene went down." he recalls. "I went into summer stock. I did everything I had to do, all I could, majoring in liberal arts and ab normal psych...