Word: spiritism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Outside Church. The new conversational spirit of confession means that more and more encounters between priest and penitent are taking place outside of church. At numerous Catholic colleges, chaplains will hear confessions in their own rooms, or even while walking on campus. Many priests no longer insist that penitents recite a detailed account of their sins, prefer freeform discussions about their wrongdoing. Occasionally, devout Catholic husbands and wives will approach a priest together for a joint examination of their spiritual failings, prior to individual, private confessions...
...Divisive. The biggest danger in the drive for teacher power is its divisiveness, setting teacher against school board, teacher against administrator. The obvious answer is cooperation and a spirit of partnership. One approach is that of the Pittsburgh schools, where a teacher-dominated professional advisory commission consults with the superintendent on all matters relevant to the education of students. Pittsburgh teachers even get extra pay to develop new ideas on curriculums and texts. In Chicago, union representatives meet monthly with the school superintendent to discuss educational policy and sit on curriculum committees...
...Turner's revolt. But readers will not fail to recognize that the shadow of Nat Turner darkened the streets of Newark and Detroit in the summer of 1967-and hovers still. This novel goes beyond a mere retelling of history to show how the fettered human spirit can splinter into murderous rage when it is goaded beyond endurance...
...laboratory demonstration of original sin taking place on a rather unreal island; The Two Deaths of Christopher Martin dealt with a mid-Atlantic castaway who seems to choose life with pain over easeful death, but is in fact already dead and in purgatory; The Spire set a drama of spirit and flesh in a remote time. The Pyramid represents no retreat from these tours de force, but Golding's command of fiction is now such that he can dress his tragedians in street clothes, put them on a topographically exact stage and fix the time in the present. This...
Perhaps the parapsychologists need not settle for mere tolerance. Whenever photographic art and psychic science run close enough to touch for a stretch, parapsychology, at least, seems to derive an infusion of new energy. It was so during the "spirit photography" vogue of the 1860's and '70's, which commenced in 1861 when one W.H. Mumler, an engraver employed by a Boston jewelery firm and in his off hours an amateur photographer, first claimed to have stumbled upon the ability to produce images of the dear departed standing or clustering behind a portrait sitter. After Mumler, a deluge...