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Confucianism & a Coffin. Though gone from Korea, Rhee was not forgotten. Many years later he wrote, "Raised in a Confucian family, I was naturally a man of peace." With the coming of World War I, Rhee's Confucian pacifism, reinforced by Christianity, led him to subscribe wholeheartedly to Woodrow Wilson's idealistic visions of a world without violence. Rhee became convinced that a passive uprising in Korea would win his people recognition both from America and from the League of Nations. In 1919 resistance leaders who had remained in Korea met secretly in Seoul to plot a revolt...
...startled listeners more than once. And he had not lost any of his flair for the macabre: in one scene, a magician hypnotizes his fellow visa-seekers, commands them into an eerie waltz in the consulate office. In Magda's dying dream, the same characters dance again in coffin clothes...
Proceeding by freighter from Biarritz to South America, the play chiefly chronicles the long-established relationship (or lack of one) between a rich, rampageous, epileptic Ecuadorian general and a prim, suicide-seeking, coffin-toting English governess. A kind of double target, Now I Lay Me contrasts farcically-as E. M. Forster and others have done more seriously-the torrid zone of the emotions with the frigid; i.e., Latin excesses and flamboyance with British repressions and good form...
Anti-refugee feeling surged hotly in the capital, as thousands shuffled past Gallostra's ornate coffin in the portrait gallery of the Spanish Casino. Relations between Mexico and the Spanish exiles sank to a new low. It seemed that in death, Star Salesman Gallostra might have brought Mexico and Franco Spain closer together, perhaps opening the way for recognition and the success of his mission...
...week, except for a stiff neck, Alina had almost completely recovered. Physicians attributed her deathlike state to a severe attack of malaria. Her awakening, they guessed, might have been caused by the noise and motion of the funeral. For the stiff neck they had an even simpler explanation: her coffin had been too short...