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What manner of man is the U. S. preacher? He may be Liberal, Moderate or Fundamentalist, poet, teacher or mystic. He is less the scholar-theologian than his brothers in England and Scotland; more the pastor-executive-publicist. He is entertaining and vivacious, but restrained in comparison with the thunderers of half a century ago. He speaks over the radio. He publishes as many volumes of sermons in a year as were published in a decade prior to 1890. He is about 54 years old. "It is doubtful if there has been another period in American history so opulent...
...Patricia's diet, medicines, treatment, with the thought that they may some day write a book about her. Their house has been deluged with the usual flood of letters (at one time 50 per mail), advice and offers of help from all sorts of people including a Hindu mystic who offered to cure her for ?150 as a first installment. Two people wanted to exhibit Patricia at the Century of Progress. One wanted to build a miniature hospital in the Hall of Science, offered $50 a week plus a day & night nurse. The other was to be a Midway...
...mood to give up. When Mr. Gandhi's whizzing motor arrived they had before them a resolution to withdraw the whole civil disobedience struggle and seek a humble compromise with the British Raj. St. Gandhi showed that his fast has certainly not made him less mystical. He talked of supplanting "mass civil disobedience" with a program of "individual civil disobedience." Even his disciples were puzzled. They urged the Mahatma to make peace and petition Lord Willingdon to set free the thousands of Gandhite prisoners, some of whom have languished in Anglo-Indian jails for as much as two years...
...Some of the conventions: American Peony Association, Ancient Order of Biberbians in America, The Maccabees Great Camp of Illinois, Mystic Order of Veiled Prophets of the Enchanted Realm, International Purity Congress, International Turkey Club, American Rabbit & Cavy Breeders Association, Concentrated Order...
...place for a spectator: he dodges bullets, gets beaten up on the street, finally leaves Moscow and his whimpering wife for the country. In a provincial town he has an affair with the singer Duniasha, then becomes legal agent for the beauteous Marina, high priestess of a mystic sect. Physically as well as emotionally stingy, he is afraid for a while that Marina may take him as her lover; finally he is afraid that he wants her to. But Marina has more sense. She tells him: "You are too clever, incorrigibly so, my friend. It is from such...