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...daily Johannesburg Star described it as "an enigmatic embrace." Said one South African expert: "Politics make strange bedfellows and fear and loneliness even stranger ones...
Gaposhkin has been around the Observatory since 1933. As he says in his opus, SERGEI, or the Divine Scramble, "Harvard College Observatory greeted very sweetly the stranger SERGEI, coming from the superior Regions of Divine power in Mind, Heart, Frame, as if knowing that he will contribute to Harvard a glory second to none; will discover 13 most remarkable stars and catch more star-stellar denizens than all astronomers observers at Harvard since its foundation in 1843..." Unpublished in two volumes (so far ...he is working on a third), SERGEI combines the hour-by-hour detail of Gorky's Autobiography...
Angel Romero: Classical Virtuoso Masterworks for Guitar (Angel; $6.98); Spanish Virtuoso Romantic Music for Guitar (Angel; $6.98). At 29, Romero belongs to the new generation of guitar virtuosos. But the Spanish-born musician is no stranger to the concert hall; along with Brothers Celin and Pepe, Angel has been appearing with Papa Celedonio Romero's family quartet since he was six. Angel's Spanish guitar music vibrates with the heroic digital work and high coloration associated with the repertory. He peels off Tarrega's Chopinesque Estudio Brillante in a fiery burst of romanticism. He can be soft...
...existence of the soul or, in his terminology, the "Thetan," the conscious being that inhabits a human body. Embroidering on Hinduism and Buddhism, Hubbard announced that Thetans are reincarnated over trillions of years, which meant that there were aeons of engrams to be erased. For Scientologists, truth became stranger than science fiction. Hubbard's explanation of why someone might have difficulty crying: he was once a primordial clam whose water ducts had been clogged with sand...
...itself obsesses her. Ibsen uses it as a symbol, a cauldron of suppressed desires, a deep well of the unconscious. The Stranger appears and demands that she go away with him. Ellida pleads with the doctor to release her from their marriage vows. In anguish of spirit, Wangel does so, and that one act exorcises the past. As a woman "of her own free will," Ellida chooses to stay with...