Word: warlock
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Secrets of Women. In Ingmar Bergman's first comedy, as in the later films, A Lesson in Love and Smiles of a Summer Night, the Scandinavian warlock gaily examines matrimony and finds it ridiculous...
...chieftains" still flows, and a group of MacAskival clansmen, who have made no "decadent concession to modern civilization." But by far the most fascinating character in the book is Logan's chief enemy, one Dr. Jackman, "the hypnotically evil man with the third eye," a kind of Marxist warlock...
...characters: Martin Lynch-Gibbon, an elegant but asthmatic London wine merchant, who is also the novel's narrator; his blonde wife Antonia; his black-haired mistress, Georgie; their joint analyst, Anderson Palmer, a smooth, prosperous Freudian who, despite a "big white American smile," is also something of a warlock and misleads both women from couch to bed; Palmer's sister, Dr. Honor Klein, a notable witch and anthropologist given to fingering a samurai sword while talking of herself as a severed head (see Freud on Medusa, a character hopefully prompts the reader). Lynch-Gibbon, a glutton for grief...