Word: mystical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stresses & Strains. The geodesic dome, then, is really a kind of benchmark of the universe, what 17th century Mystic Jakob Böhme might call "a signature of God." It crops up all over in nature-in viruses, testicles, the cornea of the eye. And for the time being at least, Bucky Fuller has this signature of God sewed up tight in U.S. patent No. 2,682,235, issued in June 1954. It is almost like having a patent on Archimedes' principle...
Christopher Flanders, "Angel of Death" and freeloading mystic, sheds no greater spiritual light than he did the first time. Chris represents goodness conceived of negatively as the absence of evil. As Tab Hunter plays him, he is the saint as camp counselor, an earnest, bearded, good-deed-a-day man, but scarcely a religious knight shielding the weak from the fierce dominion of death...
Alarmed at growing rumors among undergraduates that Johnson's Glo-Coat Floor Wax will induce mystic visions if it is heated and its fumes inhaled, Dana Farns worth and Dean Monro issue a stern warning against "this new form of sin." The Postmaster-General announces the discontinuation of the ZIP code system "because our own employees cannot learn it." Bell Telephone, having just completed the nationwide substitution of ZIP codes for area codes is reported annoyed" but says it is confident its employees can learn five simple numbers...
...American premieres alone were enough to prove the strength of Graham's charismatic grip on her art as well as her audience. In Legend of Judith, an extension of her recent cycle of mystic studies of heroines seeking reconciliation with their pasts, Graham, now 70, dances Judith, aging and melancholy; with a dream's logic, Judith recalls her patriotic seduction and murder of Holofernes, while real and imagined forms confront her to weave with their dance the tangle of her quiet doom. In Circe, Graham turns Ulysses' odyssey into an inner event, a flight of the imagination...
...month, mannerly crowds file into the drab and muggy Festspielhaus in Bayreuth to witness an opera by Rich ard Wagner. It is nearly midnight when they file out again - hungry and exhausted, perhaps, but elevated by a sense of hard cultural accomplishment. The music, as always, has worked its mystic wonders on them, but - except for that band of initiates known as Wagnerites - the drama has left them plagued by the kind of metaphysical confusion that comes from attending services at somebody else's church...