Word: mystical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...story is told in countless versions. Somebody-a saintly rabbi, a mystic caught up in holy ecstasy, even in one version a lost astronaut-chances to see God face to face and lives to tell about it. "What is God really like?" asks an anxious crowd back home. The narrator hesitates. "You'll be shocked," he warns. He is pressed further. "Well," he finally says, "to begin with, she's black...
Died. Kenneth Patchen, 60, poet of protean passions; of a heart attack; in Palo Alto, Calif. Sometimes compared to Whitman and Blake for its visionary quality, Patchen's work since the 1930s has been alternately described as Freudian, surrealistic, Marxist and mystic. Always evident was the poet's abhorrence of violence...
Furtwängler was totally different -a very Germanic, mystic type who managed to impose his almost religious view of music on the players. This resulted in absolutely superb performances too. During the '20s and '30s, Furtwängler and Toscanini were the greatest conductors. Now Georg Solti and Herbert von Karajan are the greatest, and in somewhat the same way, with Solti comparable to Toscanini and Karajan to Furtwangler...
...author's note, Forster writes that the inspiration for the novel arose from a 1913 visit to an evangelical mystic named Edward Carpenter. One of Carpenter's apostles gently touched Forster's backside, and the touch "seemed to go straight through the small of my back into my ideas." Only those who can read that without a smile will be able to appreciate Maurice. The distance between the Edwardian love that dared not speak its name and the rhetoric of the Gay Liberation Front is simply too great...
...quite that way, though he does admit to a certain "in" with the Almighty. "God and I travel together with righteousness and goodness. If people want to tag along, they can." While such words would sound intolerably conceited from any other pop star, they come inoffensively from Gaye. Part mystic, part pentecostal fundamentalist, part socially aware ghetto graduate, this particular Motown superstar simply happens to believe that he speaks to God and vice versa...