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...Ceylon, no relic is considered holier or more miraculous than the supposed tooth of Lord Buddha encased in the innermost of seven gold caskets in the Temple of the Tooth in Kandy. The pious believe that this tooth was brought to Ceylon by a 4th century princess of Kalinga, who fled with it hidden in her hair when Buddhism was driven out of India...
...agonizing and plain blundering before he winds his way out and comes to terms with reality. But, unlike so many other ex-Communist apologias, this is not an exercise in self-justification; Regler does not claim to have been "betrayed," but painfully pinpoints his own moral ambiguities as a pious prisoner in the "false monastery" of Marx...
...shouted orders to his student followers and strode about, impressive in his paratrooper uniform of camouflage cloth, looking-with his neatly trimmed beard and mustache-like a well-barbered Fidel Castro. Burly, olive-skinned Jo Ortiz led the slum contingents instead of setting up drinks in his Forum bar. Pious Robert Martel had brought in the farmers who belonged to his "Movement...
...first book was family-centered. Father belonged to the working class but rarely worked; mother pasted paper bags together to earn a living. Narrowly pious and just poor enough for pride, the parents regarded the boy's failing sight as a kind of social stigma, rather like being born out of wedlock. To such a boy the Copenhagen Blind Institute seems a worthwhile escape hatch...
Meanwhile, on the American front, the President has delivered his final State of the Union message. After some pious words about the "definite necessity" of "self-examination," Mr. Eisenhower expresses himself satisfied with the results of seven years of Republican administration. The President, James Reston said last year, has touched upon all the great issues of the age and has come to grips with none of them; this record is unchanged. As one Southern Democrat remarked after last week's message, Mr. Eisenhower continues to feed the country on a diet of "homily grits...