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...Edgar Cayce: The Sleeping Prophet, Stearn...
...stubby (5 ft. 4 in.), powerfully built man of 31, he is perhaps the world's most active and athletic ruler, relishing racing, flying and any other sport that involves danger and suspense. He can trace his Hashemite dynasty back to the prophet Mohammed, and his ancestors ruled the holy city of Mecca for 37 generations; yet his country is so new (1921) that he is only its third King. Despite his youth and many interests, he rules Jordan with a firm hand, shuffling his Cabinet regularly and on occasion even dissolving Parliament when it refuses...
Forbidden wine by the Prophet, Arabs often grow intoxicated on words. Florid exaggeration is a supreme Arab art. An Arab refugee does not tell the facts; he utters an epic of lament: "Words cannot describe the disaster we have suffered!" An Arab general does not say he will attack with 50 tanks; he is more likely to mention 50,000. Arabs do not want to admit Israelis can shoot; they say enemy guns use a new "homing device." Damascus radio is not just critical of U.S. policy; it depicts "fat, mad" President Johnson "drinking Arab blood" and warns, "O Johnson...
...hippies like to relate to such ancient figures as Hillel, the 1st century B.C. Jewish prophet of modesty and peace, and of course to Christ ("a groovy cat"). Buddha, they recall proudly, was a dropout from a royal family who later came back to the palace and turned on his father, the king, with nothing more than sincerity and a mendicant's bowl. St. Francis of Assisi, who left a rich Italian merchant family to live in poverty among the birds and beasts, is another hero, along with Gandhi (for his patient nonviolence), Aldous Huxley (for his praise...
...that his correspondence with the members of his still-born Fourth International should remain classified until 1980. The only scholar to evade this ban has been Trotsky's biographer, Isaac Deutscher, who was given permission to use the closed section of the archives by Trotsky's widow. In The Prophet Outcast, the third volume of his biographical trilogy, Deutscher quotes extensively from many of the documents which will not be made public until...