Word: mystics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...example, has nothing but problems. As the reluctant inheritor of a deteriorating resort hotel, Tillman quickly learns that he should have left most of his expectations back home in the States: "The terms of life in the islands were that nothing ever made sense, unless you were a mystic or a politician, or studied both with ambition." When Tillman's mother dies, of no visible cause, in her hotel room, petty annoyances assume the dimensions of conspiracy. The black authorities seem determined to find evidence of foul play. The hotel bartender, who hates whites in general and Tillman especially, feels...
Leftists insisting we got the mystic...
...architect's widow perceived Stalin's daughter as a mystical representative, possibly even the reincarnation, of her own daughter, who had died in an auto accident in 1946. Mrs. Wright, a disciple of the Russian-born mystic Georgi Gurdjieff, was spellbound by some coincidences between the living and the dead. Her daughter, by an earlier marriage in Russia, had also been named Svetlana; moreover, she had been born in Georgia, the region from which Svetlana Alliluyeva's father hailed. Somehow it followed in Mrs. Wright's mind that Stalin's daughter should marry the first Svetlana's widower, William Wesley...
...opened thousands of young minds as a professor at the California Institute of Technology, where he is regarded as that rarity, an eminent theorist who is a first-rate teacher. He is also a mixed-media event, featured on a novelty poster dressed as a mock mystic and appearing on public television. His directness, warmth and spontaneity are not lost in print...
...already have assumed. "You'll have to go there." There means India, the answers, once again, mean nothing. Filmed on location, the Indian seenes could just as effectively have superimposed Murray onto a set of postcards. If a Salada tea bag were a person, it just might be the mystic on top of the Indian mountain. "The path to salvation," the mystic intones in Dan Rather style Mid-westernese, "is narrow and as difficult to walk as razor's edge...