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Such startling coincidences-or, as some firmly believe, "causes"-have given rise to a new quasi-economic science which smacks of witchcraft, astrology and old-fashioned predestination. Biologists, astronomers, chemists, et al. had already found that much of the growth and movement in their fields seemed to be governed by natural cycles controlled by mysterious agencies. Could the same be true of business and industry? Did economic man have no more control over his fate than the lemmings...
...rhythms. Instead of repose, listeners felt spastic jerkiness; instead of exalting sonorities, they heard grinding dissonance. After a performance of his Three Short Liturgies of the Divine Presence, which is scored (among other things) for a xylophone and two dried gourds with rattling seeds, one Paris critic snorted: "African witchcraft rather than Christian music...
...bleak Gallows Hill, where Salem (Mass.) used to hang its witches', the staff of the M.I.T. Voo Doo had some good, clean fun last week with Harvard's Lampoon. Anybody who bought the magazine, they decided, was surely bewitched. So they tried the Lampoon (in absentia?) for witchcraft, hanged it in effigy, burned it atop a pyre of barrels and went home feeling as triumphant as the M.I.T. men of an earlier generation who soldered up Harvard's gates and painted John Harvard's statue a bright...
Hardy was still a boy, Author Cecil Doints out, when he became obsessed by the monotonous, changeless elements of village tragedy-"the drama of broken love and wronged girls, the feuds and the hangings . . . the witchcraft and the wax images." The laborers of "Wessex" (Dorsetshire) lived in clay cottages and raised families on seven shillings (less than $2) week. At 15, Hardy was already so appalled by the menaces of adult life that he longed to remain a boy forever. By the time he was 18 he had seen a man and a woman publicly hanged. Soon after, when...
...robed in scarlet, performs the duties of acolyte; the goblet of wine is placed between the breasts of the recumbent virgin and a part of the wine is spilled over her body. At the supreme moment, the sacrament, the consecrated wafer . . . is debased instead of elevated, and subsequently defiled." (Witchcraft; Harcourt Brace...