Word: metaphysicians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even closer partners in his Wind, Sand and Stars are the pilot and the poet, the mechanic and the metaphysician. Says Author Saint Exupéry: "One doesn't risk one's life for a plane any more than a farmer ploughs for the sake of the plough. But the airplane is a means of getting away from towns and their bookkeeping and coming to grips with reality. ... It plunges a man directly into the heart of mystery...
...Vanderbilt called it Idle Hour: a 100-room house in Oakdale, Long Island, as sumptuous and showy as a Summer Palace of the Romanovs. Thirty years ago it cost about $7,000,000, but nowadays it is a bit run down. Last week 500 Truth Students, Adepts and Master Metaphysicians twitched on hard chairs in the big reception hall with its encrusted ceiling, ivory-colored fireplace, concealed pipe organ. Above the doors were signs reading "Peace, Discrimination, Enlightenment, Inspiration." James Bernard Schafer, Master Metaphysician, entered...
...President Hutchins, once the "boy wonder'' of education, now turned metaphysician, Porter Sargent says: "He would be sure to get the Catholic vote. . . . The Pope is in agreement with Hutchins. as are Mussolini and Hitler. The fascists recruit from good men spent, scared and in retreat. . . . Hutchins' 'good books' include political documents of no import today, a good deal of myth for the credulous and some pornography not current. . . . But Hutchins may not be unredeemable, if he could only get away from his medievalists, if [Philosopher Mortimer J.] Adler could be sent...
...last theatrical worlds to conquer. Leaving the Milan Theatrical Academy in 1923, she was soon spotted by silver-whiskered Nobel Prizeman Luigi Pirandello, who gave her the lead in his Six Characters in Search of An Author. She has since done practically the whole library of the great theatrical metaphysician's plays, two of which are dedicated to her. In Europe and South America in the past decade Actress Abba's long, sensitive face, throaty voice and pleasantly awkward gestures have been seen in a repertoire ranging from As You Desire Me to The Cricket on the Hearth...
...there to talk on a subject in which nine-tenths of the audience had had no prior interest: "The Expanding Universe." But he was Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, M. A., D. Sc.. LL. D., F. R. S., Plumian Professor of Astronomy at Cambridge University, Director of Cambridge Observatory, metaphysician extraordinary of modern physics...