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...splendors, caught with eloquent precision by David Douglas Duncan's camera. This glittering hoard-jeweled scepters and prayer books, imperial gowns and priestly vestments, carriages and thrones-was buried art treasure until Duncan wangled Khrushchev's permission in 1956 to roam the Kremlin's history-haunted, relic-strewn halls and cathedrals with his Leica...
...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...
Still stirring controversy in Connecticut last week was a relic of the long-forgotten crusades of Anthony Comstock (1844-1915) and his bluenose New York Society for the Suppression of Vice. In 1879, during the Comstock agitation in New York and neighboring states, the legislature in Comstock's native Connecticut made it illegal to use, or to help or advise anyone to use, "any drug, medicinal article or instrument for the purpose of preventing conception." Penalty: $50 fine and up to one year in jail.* Despite perennial campaigns to soften or repeal it, and despite the evident availability...
...them names and ages. Caspar, King of Tarsus, was often represented as a beardless youth of 20; Balthazar, King of Ethiopia, was a black man of about 40; Melchior, King of Arabia, was supposed to be 60. Their remains were said to have been found by St. Helena, the relic-hunting mother of Constantine the Great, and later brought to Cologne Cathedral, which claims them today...
...other hand, many people have supposed that as a member of a high-principled and benevolent Eastern family, he would not be found on the side of Mundt-McCarthyrite principles. His support of the student loyalty oath, that fatuous relic of the hysterical era which no other Western country would be silly enough to dream up, comes as an apparent shock...