A little P

[Mark Kohut]

Remember P on Charisma in Gravity's Rainbow?..grounded in Weber, at least.

>From a book called Can't Buy Me Love by one Jonathan Gould, subtitled The Beatles, Britain and America, the ambitious Mr. Gould trying to do the deepest social, cultural and music history sez this:

"In March 1961, Vogue magazine's venerable guide to the latest trends, "People Are Talking About" included a brief and mangled reference to 'the overdeveloped and curious use by literary critics of the word charism [sic] which means special divine of spirtual gift'. Within a few
years the term charisma would emerge as a cliche of first resort, an all-purpose synonym for "presence' 'aura" or "magnetism"...