Word: mystical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last month. Angered by Sekou Touré's public criticism of the new constitution, De Gaulle refused to dine with the Guinean Premier. More important, probably, is Touré's vaulting ambition. He is in close touch with President Kwame Nkrumah of independent Ghana and has a mystic concept of his role in the future greatness of his continent. "All Africa is my problem," he boasts. A Marxist-trained unionist himself, Sekou Touré, 36, envisions a Guinean government in which labor unions will be the prime instruments of administrative power...
...broke away (to preach the Gospel to the masses with hotter fervor than the Anglicans considered seemly). Two-year peace talks had bogged down on the issue of apostolic succession, the Anglican doctrine which declares that the church's ministry is derived from the apostles by a continuing mystic transmission of spiritual authority through the episcopacy. "The doctrine of historic episcopacy is contrary to the plain warrant of Scripture," cried Theologian C. Kingsley Barrett of Durham University. "We must say no to it in God's name...
...plot from here on resembles something built of blocks by a small boy, and then partly destroyed by his dog. Ambrose is deviled by a beautiful lady biochemist, a drug-taking mystic and an evil-looking chauffeur. Someone tries to mash him with a big black car. A tribe of monkeys is mislaid and a corpse or two are discovered. A tappy old duchess who collects causes starts to lecture on the class war at a workers' meeting, absentmindedly switches to a harangue on the dangers of premature burial...
...simple sentence with literature and the monosyllable with wisdom--the crude words and rugged realism of men's magazines and college sophomores. This species of literature is dying along with the subconscious-childhood reverie. The new: Jack Kerouac's bastardization of the picar-esque tradition, the hipster vocabulary, the mystic meaningless words attached to a generation, where motion is meaning and stasis is death. (I do not speak here of the book clubs, circulating libraries, paperbounds, and imported brown-covered erotica; Henry Miller and Herman Wouk bestride this cultural colossus, alternately sagacious and sadistic with their American public...
...Creme Puff; such lipsticks as Rubinstein's Red Hellion, Revlon's Fire and Ice, Helen Neushaefer's Torrid and Pink Pas sion; such creams as Max Factor's Cup of Youth and Helena Rubinstein's Tree of Life. It lends mystic significance to a word such as moisturizing and nurtures a euphemistic cant in which reducing becomes slenderizing, dye becomes hair color, and diet becomes menu plan. Its slogans have entered the language: "She's lovely, she's engaged, she uses Pond's"; "The Skin You Love to Touch"; "Which Twin...