Word: mystic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tall, sinewy, with iron-grey hair, pointed beard, high cheekbones, keen, kind eyes behind his scholar's spectacles, Philosopher Unamuno is a mystic but no wishy-washy one. Says he: "I have put passion into my books-the passion of hatred, the passion of disdain, the passion of contempt!'' He is married. "Like my Basque country, I have no history, or rather it is all purely internal. Since my birth in Bilbao on the 29th of September 1864 of a Basque family, nothing has happened to me that can interest a reader. ... As to my internal life...
...with his large mind obsessed by this strange ideology that Mahatma Gandhi made to Indians his recent terrible, mystic appeal (TIME, March 24): "Money alone will not win self-government. If money could win, I should have obtained it long ago. What is required, therefore, is your blood...
...viewpoint of Amos 'n' Andy. Their dialogs describe the homely adventures of two Negro boys (Amos is high-voiced, nervous; Andy is deep-voiced, domineering) who operate, with one cab, the "Fresh-Air Taxicab Company of America, Incorpulated." They lead humble love-lives and club-lives ("The Mystic Knights of the Sea"), and run a whole gamut of perplexities and predicaments not too exaggerated to be recognized by their listeners. They are supported by a host of supernumeraries, but they produce all these voices themselves, including that of an occasional dog. So intimately concerned do their audiences become...
President Gerardo Machado y Morales of Cuba was initiated into the Miami Temple of the Mystic Shrine, at Havana. Last week President Machado received as "token of esteem" from the Dominican Republic a thoroughbred horse...
...Conversion of a Professor: from Rhetorics to Theology. Confessions of a Mystic", Wednesday: "The Philosophy of a Christian Bishop. His Conception of the Christian Church. Conflicts and Polemics. Christian Intolerance" Monday; "Manicheism and Christianity. The Pessimistic Vision of Life of a Great Theologian. The Rational Theology of a Celtie Monk", Wednesday, January 15. "The World and its History. Past, Present, and Future in the City of God of Saint Augustine". Monday, January 20; "Fifteen Centuries of Augustinianism. Its Influence on Christian Thought in the Middle Ages. During the Reformation and in Modern Times". Wednesday, January...