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...stave, and his chin kisses his chest. He looks like Satan grown chubby, but his deepest pleasure is the most innocent in Christendom-playing the harpsichord. His sweet music is brilliant and astonishingly rich, but at the end of a concert he can melt with a mundane gesture the mystic spell he has taken an evening to build. "I'm Fernando Valenti," he will say, extending a moist, pudgy hand. "Thank you very much for listening...
...brilliant Senghor's intellectual credentials are impressive indeed. His much-discussed poetic works include Chants d'Ombre, Ethiopiques and Nocturnes. With Martinique's Poet Aimé Cêsaire, Senghor founded the mystic philosophy of "Négritude." Senghor was the first African ever to win France's coveted agregation de grammaire academic degree, and he served with distinction as a territorial member of the postwar French National Assembly. By all accounts, he has been brooding over the political circumstances which forced him to end his 17-year friendship with Dia and take over as strongman...
...good idea." Another reporter wondered if Father-in-Law Nikita, who may visit Rome later in the year, would also call on the Pope. Atheist Adzhubei, who earlier had noted that "the Pope does not bite,'' shrugged, and quoted in answer the 15th century Christian mystic Thomas â Kempis: "Man proposes, but God disposes...
...opposite). Landscapes are notably missing: Spanish painters were mostly interested in painting people rather than scenery. But religious subjects, redolent of the mystery and aspiration that typified every Spaniard's day-by-day point of view, abound. Murillo's Christ After the Flagellation (overleaf) has a tragic, mystic quality. On the other hand, Zurbaran's St. Francis Praying, painted around 1650, is a surprisingly sophisticated example of religious preoccupation; St. Francis seems almost like a zealot interrupted at prayer and, like many old Spanish works, the picture looks surprisingly modern...
...pair of tongs in pure self-defense. He winds up in the dock, as most picaresque heroes do sooner or later. Through all his progress he is reminded again and again-first by a wise man, later by various wandering seers-that he is fulfilling the conditions of some mystic fate...