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...secret sun-worshipping sect of Dunovists. Founded 25 years ago by a Professor Dunov, who died in Sofia last week, the sect numbers some 700 men & women. Each summer the Dunovists climb Mount Musala, Bulgaria's highest mountain, in order to be nearer the sun. They also chant hymns to the sun every morning, preach human regeneration by living close to nature...
...Bsherri, a 4,000-year-old village high in the Lebanon Mountains, on Jan. 6, 1883. On Christmas Eve every human being in the village walked through the snow to church, carrying a lighted lantern. At midnight the bells began, and children and old men sang an ancient Galilean chant. They spoke in Aramaic, the language of Jesus. Kahlil said later that on three different occasions he had seen...
...farmers hoed sugar beets, tended their barnyard fowl. Plank walks were set on fences above the water. At one place dike workers mended the torn sea wall in the age-old manner. A score of them hauled on the ropes of a leaden pile driver, keeping time to the chant of a greybeard...
Better than Irving's books, his hasty notes evoke the freshness of that vanished time. On Monday, Sept. 3, 1832, at 5 in the evening, the steamer Messenger left Cincinnati and carried the traveler into a land of enchantment: "-light of fires-chant & chorus of Negro boatmen-wavering light of moon & stars-silent, primeval forest sleeping in sunshine-on each side still forest-forest-forest...
...illegal wireless transmitter, planted there by some amiable Chinese guerrillas. Emily's other friends included fabulously rich Sir Victor Sassoon (he gave Emily a snappy Chevrolet coupé), the gouty Living Buddha of Outer Mongolia ("I have nothing to do all day," he said fretfully, "but chant. . . ."), an Australian brunette named Jean (she worked in Mrs. "Buffalo" San's so-called "massage" establishment), green-trousered Dr. Chu, author of A Study of the Vaginal Vibrations of the Female Rabbit and later Puppet Wang Ching-wei's "Ambassador" to Tokyo...