Word: witchcraft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...general it was Shakespeare, not Milton, who gave Fuseli his big themes of blood, darkness, prophecy and witchcraft, those unfailing ingredients of the romantic sublime. Macbeth and A Midsummer Night's Dream were his favorite sources, though he also illustrated Lear. Hamlet and some of the histories. If the results, like Lady Macbeth Seizing the Daggers...
...side," declared Uganda's dictator, General Idi Amin Dada, on the eve of a gigantic celebration to mark the fourth anniversary of the coup d 'état that had brought him to power. He added: "Even the most powerful witchcraft cannot hurt me." It is growing more and more difficult to gainsay Big Daddy. There have been at least a dozen known attempts to overthrow him, six in 1974 alone. But the burly Amin has somehow survived...
Williams appealed his dismissal, protesting that he was "a freewheeling eclectic" in psychological method. Far from feeling any incompatibility between the practice of witchcraft and psychology, Williams sees "absolutely none. There is no reason why your religion should conflict with your work." The Kansas civil service commission agreed. It ordered Williams reinstated in his job because prison officials had failed to demonstrate that Williams had lost his professional effectiveness...
...their diagnosis. So they suggest exorcism. But what doctor, what authority of objective science, however frustrated, would turn to sorcery? How thin, after all, can you stretch convenience and still have people believe that a Harvard-Johns Hopkins-trained psychiatrist-turned-priest just happens to have done research on witchcraft? Since when has superstition invaded the sciences? Since The Exorcist, where superstition is the sense of the world. This is the alchemist's vision resurrected in a historical vacuum...
...call me a prodigy, the point needs little stretching. When I was five, I could operate the bulky, clumsy Magnavox console that occupied a corner of our living room. By seven, I knew what I wanted to hear: Ella at Birdland, Sinatra's 45 of "Chicago," with "Witchcraft" as the flip, Sammy Davis when he was still Junior, Sinatra's Christmas Album (only recently replaced in stereo), the two double albums of Ella Fitzgerald with Duke Ellington, with emphasis on "Satin Doll," and "A Train." Van Morrison sings in the same tradition. Like those predecessors, he simply possesses his songs...