Word: mystical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nothing annoys Conductor Otto Klemperer quite so much as applause. He takes his bows almost grudgingly, his craggy face expressionless, his eyes apparently unseeing. To Klemperer, musicmaking is almost a mystic rite upon which an audience should never intrude. Last week Klemperer's annoyance was severe: in the U.S. for the first time in nine years, he led the Philadelphia Orchestra in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall-and roused the crowd to an ovation the like of which conductors rarely hear...
...called Rosebud Salve to neighboring farmers. In the 35 years since, Dumas Milner has never stopped selling, and last week he did his biggest buying and selling yet. Breaking off the biggest single chunk of his $60 million Southern empire, Milner swapped his thriving household-products business (Perma Starch, Mystic Foam Cleaner, Pine-Sol) with American Cyanamid for $11 million in Cyanamid stock. At the same time, he sold off a parcel of Southern hotels and motels for $10 million in cash...
...tricked him into coming to visit his father; she can no longer bear for Vallone to touch her. She watches as Perkins' affection for his father grows, shutting her out of their lives. Lurking always in the background is the sinister figure of her maid, a mannish mystic possessing an unnatural affection for her mistress. The maid warns Mercouri: "Put that boy out of your heart or everything will fall...
...latest book, The Mind as Nature, a modest little primer for teachers, Eiseley argues that the mind is as mysterious as nature, and that its intuitions are as significant as cold empirical conclusions. "I have been labeled a mystic," writes...
...with gruff Italian husband of American cutie, because schnook and cutie have already hooked themselves up, and English and Italian want to effect a decoupling, an' what happens but that they [Anglo-Italian] fall in love, an' decide to throw away all their money, an' get all happy and mystic and meaningless an' stuff...