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...daughter of a Parisian banker of Egyptian lineage. Dark-haired and beautiful, she might have grown up in that age of fin de siecle elegance to become one of those delicate butterflies that flutter through the paintings of Renoir. But even as a child Mira Alfassa had had mystical experiences, and the Paris salon she commanded was a circle of devotees of the occult. In 1914 she visited India with her second husband, French Diplomat and Writer Paul Richard. In the French colonial city of Pondichéry, Richard introduced her to the Indian visionary Sri Aurobindo, a former revolutionary...
...good bye. Without a chance to ask what he might have done to give flesh to his dreams, the old boy asks when was the boat missed? The brass ring dismissed? The answer lies open for him to see if he can, before the stern challenge issued by the mystic power of language: Speak the truth...
...razzle going but stays short on dazzle. All the momentum established is artificial and constantly stalls out into spurious suspense. There are some nice incidental observations about the eccentricities of the rich-Cordell has his face imprinted on his personal checks and sleeps with a sort of large, mystic stone under his pillow-but watching The Inheritor gives a general feeling of false movements, like getting jostled in a crowd...
...moral uplift since the musical version of Lost Horizon. Years hence, scholars may debate the significance of the fact that the wise elder in Shangri-La and the wise bird here are both called Chiang. Surely it is no mere coincidence. A homage, perhaps. Or maybe a moment of mystic communion, a stroke of magic enlightenment of the sort that Jonathan is always shoving his beak into...
...this Saturday's regatta on the Mystic lakes, Radcliffe will face a stiff test from both MIT and the Jackson, the home team. "On the basis of having practiced in the lakes," Horn said, referring to the class of boat sailed for the Captain's Cup, "I'd say that they have a slight advantage...