Word: spiritism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HENRY: LE VOYAGE (Mercury). Old-fashioned program music played by newfangled electronic means-and what a program. Following the text of the Tibetan Book of the Dead, the work details the experiences of a dying man from his last breath on earth to his first breath as a reincarnated spirit. The eerie chirps and breathy gurgles are as disembodied as sound can be. A graduate of the Paris Conservatory, Henry once composed for conventional instruments, but found that the sonorities in his head required new outlets; he has since made his name with his new sound mixes...
Activist Tradition. There is no compulsory retirement for a Supreme Court Justice, and Warren, at 77, could have remained active as long as health and spirit lasted. Mr. Justice Holmes was writing lucid decisions in his 90s; Justice Hugo Black shows few signs of faltering at 82. Warren apparently wanted to retire while his physical and mental abilities were still keen. Moreover, he was eager to enable President Johnson, a personal friend, to name a new Chief Justice who would follow in the liberal, activist tradition...
...climactic event of the Poor People's Campaign, bore little resemblance to the famous March on Washington in August 1963. Though the turnout was an impressive 55,000, it did not even come close to the 200,000 of the earlier march. More important than size was spirit. The 1963 demonstration was suffused with the hope that the last vestiges of legal segregation would soon disappear. Most indeed did, but that did not prove enough; laws aside, the reality of discrimination and poverty remained. The 1968 rally was motivated by disillusionment and despair. In five years, a mood...
...glimpse of the offending Tracyism, Donald Brazier, assistant managing editor of the Seattle Times, had it chipped from the printing plate. The Los Angeles Times ran a sampling of some 100 letters it had received criticizing the strip, then added that it "joins in condemning any endorsement of the spirit of violence and any extra-legal act of violence...
...fully disguise the weaknesses of a play that contains more reverie than conflict, more dreams than drama. It is an attenuated lament for the loveless, a gentle moonlit ode to the undernourished heart. Each of the three leading characters is an emotional cripple. Phil Hogan is "misbegotten" because his spirit is as mean and flinty as the rocky Connecticut land he farms. His daughter Josie is "misbegotten" because she weighs 180 Ibs., stands 5 ft. 11 in., and is, in her own eyes, "a big, rough, ugly cow of a woman." A virgin who shams wantonness, Josie is wildly...