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...tourist in India, the magician's rope trick is merely another clever demonstration that the hand is quicker than the eye. To Professor Mircea Eliade of the University of Chicago divinity school, the fakir's fakery is the vestige of an ancient religious rite with highly symbolic overtones: the rope is an image of the "astral cord," symbolizing the link between earth and sky, man and heaven. Originally, the trick was intended to prove to spectators the existence of an unknown and mysterious world; by climbing the rope and then temporarily disappearing, the conjurer revealed the possibility...
Others include Mathematician Marshall Stone, son of the late Chief Justice, and Arabist Marshall Hodgson, author of The Assassins. James Redfield, son of the founder, is a classicist with a bent for cultural anthropology. Mircea Eliade is a professor of the history of religions, a Jungian psychologist, a novelist in Rumanian, and the envy of his students for being able to "drink whisky all night and never drop a line of conversation...
...addition: C. Crane Brinton low in Dunster House; Preston K. and Sholem Postel, assistant directors of the University Health Services, John C. Wells, Jr., physician to the University Health Services; Mircea research fellow in Physics on the Cambridge Electron Accelerator; and Tonis, Security Officer and Chief of University Police
...time. In 1947 Carol married Lupescu in Brazilian exile, at the side of what he imagined was her deathbed, only to have Magda recover after the ceremony. Meanwhile, in Paris and in other continental haunts familiar to the semi-destitute outcasts of royalty, forgotten Zizi Lambrino reared her son Mircea and dreamed of the day when he might be declared Carol's rightful heir. Mircea learned artistic bookbinding and made his modest way by peddling his skill among the booksellers along Paris' Quai de la Tournelle. In 1952 Zizi died. A year later, Carol followed...
Last week in Lisbon, where Carol had his last legal residence, Mircea got the recognition his mother had longed for. At the conclusion of a suit brought by Mircea Lambrino, a Portuguese court formally declared him to be a true and legitimate Hohenzollern, entitled, along with his stepbrother Michael and his stepmother Magda, to a fair share of Carol's estates, villas and funds. The only problem left was how to talk Michael and Magda out of the money...