Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Shakespeare, not his audiences, certainly not today's audiences--could or can stomach pastoral. This production gleefully aims groin-kicks at each of the text's literary conventions, until their prone bodies threaten to outnumber the actors on stage. Whether Belgrader remains faithful to some indeterminate "author's intentions" or in fact manhandles the play for his own purposes, the final product impartially communicates the matter of Shakespeare's discourse on love, while obliquely making its own points. A deft maneuver...
...colorful 341-page book, Roots of Consciousness, Author Jeffrey Mishlove comes across as a true believer in the mysterious mental powers of parapsychology -mental telepathy, clairvoyance and psychokinesis. As Mishlove would have it, things like bending spoons through the pure power of the mind "are rooted in the essential core of our cosmic existence." Now it seems they will be rooted also in the groves of academe. Mishlove, 34, a former radio personality who spent seven years doing research in Berkeley's individual disciplinary doctorate program, has been awarded a Ph.D. in parapsychology by the University of California...
...Author Margaret Drabble, age 41, has already displayed one of the most interesting galleries of heroines in contemporary letters. Over the course of 17 years and eight novels, the Drabble woman has moved from the consuming intensities of young marriage and small children toward the objective uncertainties of middle age. She has taken jobs and established careers; an early feminist, she has been buoyed by the support of her sisters and occasionally troubled by their anger and bitterness. She would still like to live with a man, although divorce and failed affairs have left her wondering...
...Author Meade believes that even if Blavatsky herself was flawed, she did have a vision - though it may have been ornamented by the hashish she smoked and the Oriental lore she claimed to have received from mysterious sources. She was living in India among Indians and praising their culture and religious ideas at a time when English mem-sahibs liked to boast of never having touched the hand of a native...
Stephen King, 32, is the hottest author of supernatural-occult novels around...