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...sheen, the amiably unscrupulous characters and the spectral tugs of mysterious forces are all reassembled-and hardly the worse for wear. Maggie Radcliffe, a fortyish American rich beyond telling, is trying to rid herself of an old hanger-on named Hubert Mallin-daine. He is stubbornly settled in one of Maggie's three houses at Nemi, south east of Rome, where votaries once worshiped at the temple of Diana. Hubert claims squatter's rights on the rather shaky grounds of his alleged descent from Diana and the Emperor Caligula...
...most responsible for ending the prosecutions, however, was Harvard president Increase Mather (A.B. 1656). He and some other Cambridge ministers, meeting in Old Harvard Hall, agreed that no court should condemn anyone to death on the basis of "spectral evidence" alone. Mather followed up at once by composing a tract, Cases of Conscience Concerning Evil Spirits, which was instrumental in persuading the Governor to end the sorry business; and, visiting in prison a number of persons who had under pressure confessed to witchcraft, Mather got eight of them to recant...
...spectral lover in her mind's eye is a man known only as the Stranger (Richard Lynch), a romantic seafarer...
There was an almost spectral air about the visit. Nixon arrived in Peking on a chill, foggy night aboard a white Chinese Boeing 707 that appeared on the airport tarmac like a phantom out of the mist. The former President and Mrs. Nixon walked down the red-carpeted ramp to be greeted by China's Acting Premier Hua Kuo-feng, Foreign Minister Ch'iao Kuan-hua and a group of 350 Chinese. There was no military guard to greet Nixon and his entourage of 20, including 15 Secret Service men (20 journalists were also along, among them TIME...
...Human Nutrition"), language ("Language"), the weather ("The Atmosphere, the Oceans and World Views It"), and accounting ("Financial Accounting"). And these commonplaces are only the beginning--this volume holds the key to the foreign and the arcane as well: covering spaces, manifolds, simplicial and CW complexes, Gibbs states, fibre bundles, spectral sequences, saturated structures, and totally transcendental theories, all within the space of a few pages...