Word: secretse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Scientists and engineers went far enough. They showed Taubman plans and laboratories never before seen by a journalist. He was even dressed in white plastic for a visit to a sterile room where color negative film is coated. Yet the company is so protective of its secrets that Taubman'...
Although it is essential to studying the secrets of life, dissection of the dead was anathema to laymen for many centuries. Emperors and popes once forbade the practice, forcing physicians to utilize the services of body snatchers who, as late as the 19th century, obtained cadavers in midnight graveyard forays...
Crystal Balls. A wave of fascination with the occult is noticeable throughout the country. It first became apparent a few years ago in the astrology boom, which continues. But today it also extends all the way from Satanism and witchcraft to the edges of science, as in Astronaut Edgar Mitchell...
Sociologist Truzzi argues somewhat similarly in a recent issue of the Sociological Quarterly. "If we fully believed in demons," Truzzi writes, "we certainly would not want to call them up." For most occultists, he says, the occult arts and practices are just a form of "pop religion," more healthy than...
Weirder fantasies soon set in. Lola took refuge in astrology and nature mysticism. She revived briefly to write a book of beauty secrets (to prevent wrinkles, she suggested binding thin slivers of raw beef tightly around the face) and made some lecture tours ("Let historical justice be done to the...