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...modern industries. Yet, as its chairman and chief executive, he remains a shy and paradoxical figure, leary of publicity even as he competes for profits. Half introvert and half visionary, McDonnell sometimes seems a crusty, single-minded engineer who exists only for his work. But he is also a mystic missionary bringing word from another world, and all his fighter planes?Phantom, Demon, Banshee, Voodoo?bear names that testify to his long fascination with the abode of spirits...
...winter had been cruelly severe even by Siberian standards. Russia's rickety railroads were no longer able to funnel sufficient food into the cities, and bread lines in the capital of Petrograd (now Leningrad) grew longer each day. The orgies and intrigues of the Czarina's mad mystic Rasputin had riven Nicholas II's court. It was in this chill ambiance of discontent and deprivation that, 50 years ago this week, a revolution that began almost casually in Petrograd swept out the Czar and changed the course of Russian and modern history...
Anxious Age. A religious mystic, Baldung made his nocturnal Nativity into a stage set dark with symbolism. In the eerie ruin, light glows from a trinity of sources: a misty moon, an angel announcing Christ's birth to a shepherd, and Jesus himself, who casts a cool white aura over Mary and Joseph...
Magic Phrase. In Philadelphia last week, an overflow crowd jammed Irvine Auditorium to see Graham and her company. Legend of Judith attracted the most attention because Graham herself appeared in the lead role, serving as the mystic eye of a swirling storm of dancers who flashed dreamlike through the "unknown landscape of the mind." Though she moved with a quiet, serene grace, age seemed to have made its impression; her dancing carried more suggestion than statement. But if the body was a little unwilling, the flame of the spirit still glowed...
After David Katz, President of the Yale chapter of the International Meditation Society had been laughed down attempting to explain the Indian mystic's philosophy, Maharishi appeared, half an hour late. He was a slight, dark man with a gray beard who dressed in long white robes and carried a bouquet of flowers...