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" ... But did the Surrealists believe in the magic they invoked? Certainly Breton – who led the movement with totalitarian zeal – took the subject seriously. He expelled Seligmann from the Surrealist fold for disputing his interpretation of a Tarot card. Yet his embrace of magic seems to have been calculated. "Under the pretense of civilization and progress, we have managed to banish from the mind everything that might rightly or wrongly be termed superstition or fancy," he wrote in the First Surrealist Manifesto. Taking up magic was a powerful way of challenging the society he despised, and it came with a spectacular bag of tricks that could be used to shock and awe the bourgeoisie. ... "
" ... Doral Arrowwood is a 30-minute drive from downtown Manhattan but feels miles away, nestled as it is cheek-by-jowl with the Hudson River locale that inspired Irving's tales of old Dutch superstition and fantasy (the resort is about a 15-minute drive from Sleepy Hollow). ... "
" ... Historically, capitalism is only about 250 years old – a mere flick of the clock hand relative to mankind’s total time on earth so far (roughly 200,000 years, and only 15,000 years in the Americas). Capitalism arose during the Renaissance (1500s-1600s) and Enlightenment (1700s), which entailed a re-birth of reason, self-confidence, culture, and commerce – in short, the pursuit of one’s own personal happiness. This was in sharp contrast to what had preceded it for a millennium: zeal and faith, superstition, ignorance, oppression, torture, and economic poverty, imposed by church and state alike, amid religious Medievalism and the Dark Age. Capitalism has been co-extant with the Scientific Revolution, the Industrial Revolution and the Political Revolution, the last of which was realized in the U.S. Constitution (1787), which soon also abolished slavery. ... "
" ... Like creativity, ritual incorporates symbolism and meaning, two features missing from the everyday routines used to bring order to our lives. Ritual also differs from superstition, as ritual is often performed to bring about a positive outcome, not merely to prevent a negative one. ... "
" ... Then in 2015, when he turned 90, Stovall passed it off to his son, Sam, the chief investment strategist at CFRA Research. The younger Stovall, who refers to himself as the “keeper of the superstition,” now dutifully records the outcome of the Super Bowl and the market’s performance 12 months later in a master Excel spreadsheet. He crunches the numbers and updates the Super Bowl Indicator’s odds. ... "