Word: mystical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SONGS OF SCANDINAVIA (London). Birgit Nilsson, the Swedish farmer's daughter, puts aside the superhuman passions of Wagner's Valhalla to sing most expressively some quiet love songs and mystic reveries about the fir forests, mists and dripping rocks of Scandinavia. Seven songs are by Sibelius, three by Grieg, and four by the little-known Swedish songwriter and symphonist, Ture Rangstr...
...Nazis were shrewd enough to put Germany's passion to use in the Hitler Youth during the 1930s; yet walking remains a romantic refuge from politics and society in general. Many Germans ramble alone. Others prize the mystic shared experience of striding arm in arm, verbunden (joined together) with a dear friend, facing the little obstacles of the way, starting together at strange noises, wondering what Grimm monster lurks in the forest shadows. "Walking invigorates the soul," they explain. "Things seem to sort themselves out and fall into place during a good walk...
Toward the end, Stolpe believes, Hammarskjöld had become a fully realized mystic and had begun to turn inside and to look realistically at the problems of loneliness-of the lonely body, too, as he showed in a wryly touching little verse...
Faith in the Pope. Cavalier talk it was, too, for the parlor of an absent Foreign Minister. As Il Borghese played it, La Pira had gaily dismissed Communism as "a peril that no longer exists." President Johnson, he told the editor with a mystic's assurance, "will have to cede and make peace [in Viet Nam] because American financiers want it." Dean Rusk? "He doesn't know anything." Italian Premier Aldo Moro? "There's something about him I don't like." Pope Paul? "I have faith in him," allowed the Saint, "even if he sometimes stops...
...novel but understood only as a parable of the pit. "William James if not Freud," he wrote in a letter to his British publisher, "would certainly agree with me when I say that the agonies of the drunkard find their most accurate poetic analogue in the agonies of the mystic who has abused his powers...