Steiger has thus far written on UFOs, ESP, the lost continent of Atlantis, reincarnation and every other sort of psychic phenomenon, so that Indian medicine power is right up his spooked alley. "Medicine" here isn't limited to the arts of healing; it includes clairvoyance, precognition and the control of weather elements as in the rain dance which Steiger contends "properly practiced, does most certainly provoke the fall of rain." The book is a ghostly hodgepodge of paeans to the Great Spirit, interviews with medicine men of various tribes from Sun Bear the Chippewa to Roiling Thunder the Shoshone, smatterings of anthropology, and whelming pronouncements that the Amerindians, dead or alive, will teach the arrogant White Man about humanhood, ecology, and "the mystical transcendental experience inside everyone." Already American youth, especially the hippies, are rejecting the "dross of materialism" in favor of Indian spiritual values. Well-intentioned, credulous nonsense.
Pub Date: Feb. 8, 1973
ISBN: 0385009259
Page Count: 226
Publisher: Doubleday
Review Posted Online: May 23, 2012
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 1, 1973
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Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis...
Privately published by Strunk of Cornell in 1918 and revised by his student E. B. White in 1959, that "little book" is back again with more White updatings.
Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis (whoops — "A bankrupt expression") a unique guide (which means "without like or equal").Pub Date: May 15, 1972
ISBN: 0205632645
Page Count: 105
Publisher: Macmillan
Review Posted Online: Oct. 28, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 1, 1972
This is not the Nutcracker sweet, as passed on by Tchaikovsky and Marius Petipa. No, this is the original Hoffmann tale of 1816, in which the froth of Christmas revelry occasionally parts to let the dark underside of childhood fantasies and fears peek through. The boundaries between dream and reality fade, just as Godfather Drosselmeier, the Nutcracker's creator, is seen as alternately sinister and jolly. And Italian artist Roberto Innocenti gives an errily realistic air to Marie's dreams, in richly detailed illustrations touched by a mysterious light. A beautiful version of this classic tale, which will captivate adults and children alike. (Nutcracker; $35.00; Oct. 28, 1996; 136 pp.; 0-15-100227-4)
Pub Date: Oct. 28, 1996
ISBN: 0-15-100227-4
Page Count: 136
Publisher: Harcourt
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 15, 1996
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