Word: tarot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While the younger Bok may have looked out of place on Brattle St., he would have been right at home in the old John Hancock Building in downtown Boston, where dozens of jewelry readers, Tarot wizards, and palm scanners gathered last night for the first annual "Psychic's Festival...
...with the ability to perceive, a person who is not ashamed to say, hey, I knew that was going to happen," said Joyce Carberry, one of the organizers of the festival, who says she has been reincarnated over 20 times in various forms and possesses the ability to read Tarot cards and make spiritual contact with the dead...
...these mini-computers, many of which are as small as an office electric typewriter with a small TV screen on top, can also play games. One company at the show sold "software" packages--computer programs--for tarot cards, "Pirate Adventure," "Magic Isle," and the classic "Star Trek...
...demand for foreknowledge of practically everything supports a professional industry whose size is barely hinted at by the hovering legions of astrologers, fortune tellers, palmists, mystics, clairvoyants, tarot cardists and stock-market analysts. In fact, the craze for foretelling (and being foretold) runs so deep that it has incurably infected the one profession whose redeeming mission is actually to discover what happened yesterday: journalism. Even though this obligation regularly taxes its competence, journalism today spends a surprising amount of its energy transmitting what it cannot possibly know for sure. Not only tabloids like the National Enquirer but sober organs like...
...that is a conventional call. Let the Tarot cards make the slightly wilder surmise: Senator Hillary Clinton will run for president in 2004 against the bumbling incumbent, President George W. Bush. And will win, to become America's first woman president...