Word: mystic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Schooled in the apathy of the mystic, in the ataraxy of the Oriental stoic, the teacher sat quietly upon the tack and conducted his class. Then, when he had ended his lecture, he expelled them all. Thus did tradition of the East vanquish the smartness of the West in a Turkish seat of learning...
...political moods and delivers thumbnail diatribes on Normalcy, the Kaiser at Doom, the Foes of the League of Nations. More widely appealing will be the ex parte satires, which are very human and mellow indeed and written, as is the whole book, with notable artistic economy. These include: a Mystic, a Skeptic, and a suppressed Dyspeptic who called himself an Asthmatic; a Famous Author who Returned to the Primitive, enjoying both himself and the publicity; a nimble Ass and an Elephant, who grumbled "life is easier for the light-waisted...
...Phaon, a lovechild of 12, and an orphaned girl-baby called Deodata by her poetic foster-mother, the numerous survivors of the wrecked S. S. Cormorant are all mature women. There are an artist, a circus rider, a novelist, a harlot, a U. S. debutante, a doctor, a mystic, a Negress, many miscellaneous. Most are young, most are beautiful, or soon rendered excessively so by life upon the paradisiacal island of their Robinson Crusade. The aging artist, Anni Prächtel, assumes the presidency of the Mother State, which, by shrewd conscription of mental and spiritual resources, soon luxuriates...
Loew's State--"Exchange of Wives" and "The Mystic" continuous...
Loew's State--'Exchange of Wives" and "The Mystic" continuous...