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...spectacular impostor of modern times. A sick, brilliant, 37-year-old alter-egotist who never finished high school, Demara by main nerve and native intelligence has carried off careers as military surgeon, psychology professor, cancer researcher, dean of a school of philosophy, language teacher, law student, assistant prison warden, Trappist monk and the devil knows what else (TIME, Dec. 3, 1951; Feb. 25, 1957). Perhaps the most astonishing thing about this Cagliostro is his conscience; more often than not, he commits crimes of kindness and sins of social betterment...
That's Freedom. From the moment Fred realized he was in, he had only one thought: how to get out. One day he stole credentials belonging to a bunkroom buddy, went quietly over the hill and presented himself at a Trappist cloister under the first of his false identities: Anthony Ingolia. Demara was well aware that he had committed a crime, but at first he felt no guilt. Later, he was deeply disturbed by the Pearl Harbor attack. "I wanted to do my part," he has explained. "I like this country, you know. Where else but in America could...
...talented artists who paint in styles ranging from realistic to expressionistic, from primitive to symbolic (see color pages). Among the best: ¶ Alfred Manessier, 47 (TIME, Oct. 24, 1955), who was shaken out of his surrealist visions by World War II nightmares, spent four days in 1942 in a Trappist monastery that "transformed" him. Today he tries to "create works which reflect my thirst for harmony and unity." His "meditations in paint" are vivid abstractions that combine warm, bright Fauve-like colors with the restrained forms of cubism. ¶ Jean Dubuffet, the chief barnstormer for "I'art brut...
...Cistercian monks in Rhode Island, stayed several years under monastic rule. In 1941 he enlisted in the Army, soon went over the hill, joined the Navy, became a medical corpsman. His first big bull-throwing exhibition came after he went over the hill again and turned up at the Trappist monastery near Louisville, Ky. claiming to be one Robert L. French, Ph.D. As in his later exploits, Demara had picked his identity from a university catalogue, had in some mysterious way assembled all the necessary proofs and college transcripts to support the pretense. But he disappeared after a while, later...
Pure Spirit. Trappist Wiesinger's closely reasoned, footnote-fortified volume is a serious study of apparitions, demons, second sight, telepathy, witches, mediums, magic, radiaesthesia (divining), crystal gazing, hypnosis and diabolical possession. It is built upon a thesis which the author has constructed out of Thomist theology (the book carries the imprimatur) and depth psychology...