Word: mystical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ever Wassermann is concerned with the problems of good an evil. With a slight tendency to run off into mystic symbolism, his books are all highly and openly philosophic; only his Viennese delicacy and finesse have saved him from the bogs and fogs which beset most German writers. He pictures a group of people, the life of whom is calm and ordered; but somewhere in this group there is the ferment of evil. In the path of each little insignificant wrong, punishment subtly folows sin. Nemesis pursues Man--Oedipus, Christian Wahnschaffe--, Man, who must act and yet knows...
...William Allen White, who writes in Emporia, Kan., and talks anywhere, said last week in Brooklyn, N. Y.: "President Coolidge is as much of a mystic as any other New Englander ever has been, even Emerson; and his mysticism is that he believes that, given prosperity, justice will come as a byproduct. ... I think Calvin Coolidge represents the very best that can be said of this new commercial era in its political phase...
...Mystic Knight membership...
...opinion that sentiment was at times divided on major issues in our national politics, would have been a succulent morsel to the political bear-baiters of yesteryear. But they are dead, and in this day and age a pronunciamento from the White House Spokesman becomes imbued with that same mystic sanctity which enshrouds its author...
...were lost," related Mrs. Osborn, "in contemplation of that portrait, and after a few minutes' silence Professor Osborn said 'Sargent, you have captured a quattrocento mystic, a saint, a Saint Francis of Assisi.' Whereupon Sargent, in the ebullience of youth, literally jumped from the floor, saying, 'Osborn, do you see that in that face? That's what...