Word: saint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...kidnaped Mehdi Ben Barka? It is almost exactly a year since the diminutive exiled Moroccan leftist leader vanished from a street in Saint-Germain-des-Prés. For the past several weeks the knotty mystery of his disappearance has been unraveling in a Paris court. All the evidence confirms the likelihood that he stepped willingly into a black Peugeot and was whisked to a villa in a Paris suburb because he believed that envoys of his old political enemy, Morocco's King Hassan II, were trying to contact him with an offer to return home for a reconciliation...
There developed a gulf between myself and the speaker. As far as I knew he was a marked man, chosen at a tender age by a sect of mystics to become a saint. He had been proclaimed the Messiah (by one Mrs. Annie Besant), but refused to play the role out of humility. Perched on one side of his chair, his legs glued together at the knees and the ankles, he looked as if he were squeezing over to make room for a bigger man. Definitely monk material, I decided...
...Riviera he went shopping in Saint-Paul-de-Vence's steep, stony streets, tried his hand at lawn bowling, and like Yves Montand and Simone Signoret-wined and dined at the Colombe d'Or. Then it was on to Paris for a round of wreath-layings, ceremonials, and the more important business of lunching and chatting with De Gaulle, who knew just how to warm the heart of his Eastern neighbor...
...Your cover story on that nut house called China [Sept. 9] was a splendid piece of political writing. Mao Tse-tung has gone even beyond Stalin, his patron saint and political guru, in villainy. No political leader in history cuts such a ridiculous figure trying to stamp his aging image on the hearts of nearly 800 million people...
Teresa of Avila, the 16th century saint, had poetic visions of "pure water running over crystal, the sun reflecting it and striking through it." Simone Weil, the lonely Jewish girl who turned into a Christian mystic, tells how the recitation of lines by George Herbert, such as, "Love bade me welcome; yet my soul drew back," acted on her intuitive unconscious like prayer. "Then it hap pened," she recalled. "Christ himself came down, and he took...