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Charms and Nail-Parings. Hansen spells out the point: "If you believe in witchcraft and you discover that someone has been melting your wax image over a slow fire or muttering charms over your nail-parings, the probability is that you will get extremely sick. To be sure, your symptoms...
(9 of 10) characteristics of the planets strongly affect each other when they are in "conjunction" (only 10° or so apart). Their good characteristics strongly reinforce each other when they are "trine" (120° apart) and reinforce each other less strongly when they are "sextile" (60° apart). They represent an obstacle...
As he crisscrossed the erstwhile White Man's Grave, dropping in on the Ivory Coast, Liberia, Ghana, the Congo, Zambia and Ethiopa-with Somalia, Kenya and Tunisia also on the itinerary-not even the fabled spirit of WAWA could put Humphrey down. WAWA, short for West Africa Wins Again...
Caterwaul & Caricature. The war has sundered the moral and political life of the U.S. as deeply as any crisis in this century. Within both major parties politicians have at least had a traditional forum from which to endorse or denounce the course of U.S. policy. Not so with the nation...
Space Is a Weapon. Anybody looking for a strong sense of human reality wil not find it in Blackwood. In The Man Whom the Trees Loved, for instance, he maunders through a 70-page vagary in which a man is slowly taken over into the vegetable kingdom. Blackwood provides no...