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...macabre stunt or commemorative rite. The latest to undergo the ordeal of the cross is a French husband-and-wife team of yoga practitioners in the Dominican Republic, who offered themselves up in the cause of world peace and to demonstrate the "power of mind over matter." French-born Mystic Patricio Tamao, 33, who is the founder of his own philosophy, Tamaoism, was the first on the cross, which was on the patio of a Santo Domingo hotel. Tamao, who planned to stay on the cross at least 48 hours, lasted half that long-19 hours with the cross...
...Sunlight Dialogues evolves from the return of a once-prominent local lawyer to Batavia; self-exiled because of personal and financial disasters. No longer quite sane, Taggart Hodge assumes the pseudonym of the "Sunlight Man," a mystic, magician and aspiring philosopher king. Much of the story takes the shape of a thriller, replete with jail-break, murder, appearances and disappearances. But Medievalist Gardner doesn't stop here. The secretive dialogues of Hodge, an elusive and outspoken anarchist, with Batavia's strict law-and-order police chief (hence the title) are strangely reminiscent of Grendel's talks with Unferth in Grendel...
...Eugene O'Neill, the early period was his one-act sea plays. O'Neill's almost mystic affinity for the sea was probably the only untormented love that his lonely, brooding, haunted spirit ever knew. O'Neill's late period, in which he exorcised the ghosts of the past and reached commanding stature as a dramatist, is pre-eminently represented by The Iceman Cometh (his vision at the approach of death) and Long Day's Journey into Night (the reconciliation with his family which he could not achieve while his family lived...
...sustaining power behind Japan's third largest political party, the Komeito (Clean Government) Party. Its formula for success, both personal and collective, is simple: the relentless chanting of a brief ritual prayer before replicas of the sect's treasured Dai-Gohonzon, a camphorwood tablet inscribed with mystic symbols by a 13th century monk named Nichiren...
Right from the start, it was a bad day for the Radcliffe squad. Sailing in Lark sloops on the Mystic Lakes Course at Tufts, the 'Cliffe sailors couldn't seem to get untracked...