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Speaking to a crowd of about 120 people, Harris said, "it lies within the realm of possibility for humans to exert determinant influences over the course of history--it is not biologically determinded, we have cultural choices." He cited the existence of India's sacred cow as a case in point...
...project mental influence on physical objects. Those who have it can, in theory anyway, move mountains or, if we are to believe The Fury, afflict people who cross them with ailments ranging from nosebleeds to cerebral hemorrhages, and worse. To most of us, psychokinesis exists in that exotic realm where pseudo-scientific speculation meets metaphysics, but for Brian De Palma it is obviously an obsession. It was the subject of 1976's highly successful Carrie, and he has returned to it again in The Fury...
Even the real 1953 Kismet probably could not stand up in 1978. A simple damsel (Melba Moore) with a poetic thief for a father (Ira Hawkins) ascends, through incredible accidents, to become the bride of the king of the realm (Gilbert Price) despite the machinations of the Wazir
...critics and children never seem to get enough of Kipling. Psychologists are forever picking at the locks of his complex personality, while kids pass effortlessly through to enter the artist's realm of enchantment and adventure. British Novelist and Critic Angus Wilson is the latest in a long literary line to attempt to penetrate the inner Kipling. As Wilson puts it, he seeks "the interrelation of the real world and the imagined in his art." The problem is that Kipling's perceptions of the world were often confused and inconsistent; his art was not. Thus he could praise...
...bourgeois-leftist criticism. These intellectuals are the non-ideologues who, unable to concertedly voice their opinions for two and a half decades after World Ware Two, can now feel free to criticize the establishment. Moreover, they can serve to usher literature past politics and into the realm of metaphysics where it can become truly creative...