Word: spiritism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CANTERBURY TALES. There is something innocent, sweet and perhaps inaccessible about Geoffrey Chaucer. Unfortunately, the Chaucerian spirit is largely missing from this British musical. The chorus boys' codpieces are ample, but they scarcely camouflage the empty boisterousness of both dance and bawdry...
...policies in a number of areas, the degree of continuity has been high enough to deny the Democrats much cause for complaint so far. Democratic Senator George Mc-Govern of South Dakota confesses: "I'm pleasantly surprised at what seems to be a combination of prudence and progressive spirit." Congressman Morris Udall of Arizona points out that "after 1964, a lot of people complained that they had elected Johnson and gotten Goldwater's foreign policy. Now we've elected Nixon and, to a large extent, we're getting Johnson's domestic policies...
...harsher measures to come and delivering chilling private threats to political leaders in West Berlin. Against that backdrop of anxiety, Soviet Marshal Ivan Yakubovsky, the commander of the Warsaw Pact, arrived in East Berlin for a conference-held, according to the East German news agency, in a "brotherly fighting spirit"-with military leaders from the other six Warsaw Pact countries. Yakubovsky has a Btfsplkian habit of turning up just before something big happens; he visited Berlin shortly before the Wall went up in 1961, and his tour of East Europe last summer preceded the invasion and occupation of Czechoslovakia...
Unfortunately, the Chaucerian spirit is largely missing from a British musical called Canterbury Tales, which has not thrived on a sea change from London. Surprisingly commercial, it treats sex as a commodity and faith as an epilogue, in the manner of a Cecil B. DeMille devotional epic. Nothing is mod est about the show except its quality...
...point of view, the "auditing or processing is a central practice of their religion, akin to confession in the Catholic Church." Furthermore, said Wright, Scientology's leaders claim that the E-meter is not used to diagnose or treat physical disease. They insist that they are treating the spirit, and through the spirit, hope to cure the body...