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...kind; she supported herself and some times the Theosophical Society by prodigious feats of freelance journalism, mostly for Russian newspapers. She did have a powerful need for self-dramatization, however, and a real belief in the spirit-infested cosmology she described in two long, marvelously jumbled works of Ori ental philosophy, Isis Unveiled and The Secret Doctrine. Her Tibetan Masters dictated these volumes to her, she seems to have been convinced, although their San skrit quotations tended to be shaky. If a bit of spiritualist theater in a darkened room helped to shore up the convictions of her fellow Theosophists...
Chicago's Ravinia Park music festival looked like an Eastern bazaar. Strewn around the stage one evening last week were 47 pieces of Western and Ori ental hardware: four full-grown timpani, four little timpani, three barrel drums, nine objects that resembled brass flower pots (they were Buddhist prayer bells), an array of bamboo, glass and wooden utensils, and lots and lots of gongs...
...Howard, who recently came out as a supporter of Wendell Willkie, could not give his side of it last week. He was in the Far East gathering material on the Ori ental situation, visiting Australia, Japan, China, The Netherlands East Indies, the Philippines...
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