Yet the idea of spirithood is perfectly simple, really. The stress is upon the emotion that is eternal and absolute: love. And since the essence of love is freedom, through spirithood freedom is introduced into the whole personality.

It's an oasis in the midst of a concrete jungle,' said Dowd, a gaunt, ruddy-faced Norman Rockwellesque figure.

Mr. Marwan, the excited vetters discovered, was married to a daughter of Egypt’s president, Gamal Abdel Nasser."

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