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...with the mind of a lightning calculator, what it was that his country would need. He was an Asiatic expansionist before the Manchukuo Incident, a totalitarian seven years before the Konoye reorganization. The crew haircut, the round, boy's face, the carefree smile, the candor, the courtesy, the mystic organ-note of his speechifying, all mask the hard core of the opportunist who has made of himself what he is and hopes to make of himself still more...
Baron Hugo's band will fill the air with sweet, and Chloe Merimee, the noted Croole mystic astrologer, has been persuaded to abandon her retreat in the heart of old New Orleans to lend atmosphere to the proceedings...
Professor Sorokin now lives in Winchester, with the Mystic Valley Reservation for a back yard, which gives him "all the advantages of an estate without any of the duties." When he is not lecturing or writing or breakfasting with his friend Serge Koussevitsky, the professor likes to work in his garden behind the house, an interest perhaps inherited from his many Russian forebears. When they want more lengthy relaxation. Mother and Father and the two boys move to their camp in Canada where Father forgets his vertical and horizontal mobility long enough to be a compleat angler. He despairs...
...attacked the progressivists for continually telling their pupils "the whys" and the advocates of the older system for teaching them the "mystic doctrine of obedience," and insisting that everything "is none of your business." He questioned the advisability of knowing everything...
...Corneliu turned the father's theorizing into practice, founded the wild-eyed, green-shirted Iron Guard-mystic, antiSemitic, pro-Nazi but also ferociously patriotic. When Corneliu was slain by King Carol's orders in 1938, canonized by his followers, old Ion Codreanu, then 66, felt duty bound to step from the background into active leadership of the most jingoistic faction of the Iron Guard...