Word: spiritualists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...19th century. The literary equivalent of melody is, of course, story, the engaging what-next of narrative prose. Hansen's tersely told tale hangs expectantly on the outcome of Mistress Blum's treatment, which unexpectedly includes the arcane input of the enchanting Madame Helena Barrett and her spiritualist friends...
...that Harvard students are just too dependent on their five senses: sight, smell, taste, touch and hearing. Most totally ignore their sixth sense, otherwise known as their "sixth sense." Those that don't fall into this trap see no shortage of Harvard haunts. Several years ago, Young recounts, a spiritualist was invited to speak in Massachusetts Hall. "Students had expressed an interest in that sort of thing, and this lady had worked with the FBI in locating missing persons." Before performing some appropriately mind-bending feats of ESP, the spiritualist warned students not to take pictures because...
...appeal of alternative healers and their uncommon cures is hardly new. Nationwide, health-care consumers spend nearly $14 billion a year for medical treatments rarely offered by the family doctor. Deepak Chopra, the India-born endocrinologist, spiritualist and publishing juggernaut, has enjoyed perennial best-seller status since the 1993 publication of Ageless Body, Timeless Mind. Other author-healers, from Dr. Bernie Siegel to Marianne Williamson, have enriched themselves and their publishers by offering a buffet of alternative approaches that range from meditation and visualization to the curative powers of love and positive thinking...
...Pousette-Dart's paintings had a general kind of affinity with Mark Tobey's, in their formal means as well as in their spiritualist ambitions: an image emerging from subtle "white writing" spread across the surface, bathing the ideographic forms in a diffused glow. But Pousette-Dart really hit his stride in the '60s, through a kind of Impressionism without objects. In it, the Impressionist idea of fidelity to the passing nuances of light was subsumed in rendering a molecular space, dancing and palpitating with perfectly controlled motes of close-valued color and big, tranquil, centered images that resembled stars...