Word: skepticism
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...playing between acts, the music even made the commercials fairly tolerable. But it was no cure for Oscar Hammerstein II's script, which kept shifting uneasily between the sentimental and the sophisticated, and making each seem lamer than the other. The modern approach produced a down-to-earth skeptic of a Godmother (Edith Adams) with sequined eyelids and, for a magic wand, a drum major's baton. The attempt at innocent fairy-tale enchantment was sometimes harder to take: one interminable lovers' dialogue consisted of stilted inanities that sounded like a whole musicom-edy's worth...
...barbaric Kingdom of Glome, somewhere north of civilized ancient Greece. The central figures are the beauteous Princess Psyche, a symbol of sacred love, and her ugly sister Orual, a symbol of profane love. By contrast, their Greek slave tutor, Lysias the Fox, is a symbol of the rational, worldly skeptic of all ages. The Fox tells the princesses that their country's religion, which revolves around a shapeless stone earth-mother deity named Ungit, is a pack of lies. But Ungit's priests bully the king into offering up Psyche as a human sacrifice to redeem the kingdom...
...reference to Dr. David Bodian as a "skeptic" (.June 25] in relation to the approach to vaccination against poliomyelitis, now in use, does not characterize him accurately. He is not so regarded by his colleagues, nor have his writings or utterances so revealed...
...Siddall, who pushed circulation from less than 500,000 to over 2,000,000 between 1915 and 1923 with the inspirational magic of success stories. In its time, American was the first to run Kipling's If and Edna Ferber's short stories, ranged in contributors from Skeptic H. L. Mencken to Booster Bruce Barton. When Editor Sumner Blossom took over in 1929, he announced, "Horatio Alger doesn't work here any more," and American turned itself into a family magazine. It went on thriving for years...
...hypnosis, extrasensory perception and, finally, reincarnation. Then come a hundred pages of interview in which Ruth Simmons becomes Bridey Murphy. The book ends with an impressive-looking thirty pages of appendix (twelve appendices). In the first part Bernstein's technique is clever. Setting himself up as a "real skeptic," he plunges into each subject with the determination of a bloodhound. Of hypnosis he had thought, "That's strictly for the lunatic fringe." However, by ecclectically drawing from whatever sources he can find, or as he puts it, "doffing my hat" to the experts, Bernstein soon discovers hypnosis...