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Then a voice low, strange and mystic calls, ere comes the morning...
...Bruno, the saintly Anglo-Italian mystic, was making a final effort to tear the dying Eustace from a "sepulcher . . . built of . . . sloths and sensualities...
Politician and Mystic. In his study at Laurier House the picture of Mackenzie King's mother is illuminated like a shrine. She was born in New York, in exile, the daughter of his rebel grandfather, William Lyon Mackenzie who led the abortive Canadian rebellion of 1837. Khig worships his mother. She left him her devout Scottish Presbyterian belief, a deeply religious strain that sometimes makes King seem self-righteous. An exasperated follower once described him as "a mild megalomaniac with a St. Peter complex...
Shortly after our departure, Ed Myers also traversed their territory, taking movies. After becoming friends with the Lacandons and doing them several favors, they told him they would show him a treasure of great value. When the mystic moment arrived, a cloth made of beaten bark was removed from the treasure, placed to protect it from temporal or spiritual harm. As you may have guessed, the treasure was the copy of TIME. . . . HOWARD F. CLINE Assistant Dean Harvard College Cambridge, Mass...
...bought them. But the country was flooded with typewritten sheets. When the April 17 issue of TIME arrived in El Salvador, the police expurgated it. At least one copy escaped. Its story of the revolt, translated, circulated underground among thousands who welcomed a true account of the bloodthirsty mystic in the Presidential Palace...