Word: mystical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...self-confidence with them into the world. Some of them, like T.E. Lawrence, wanted to be someone else; like all intelligent travelers, he knew that landscape is an articulate moral category. He found a hard, almost fanatical clarity in Arabia, a purity that transformed the unhappy Englishman into a mystic desert hero. Other Englishmen and Americans, aloof, invulnerable, their servants laboring under steamer trunks and their gazes trained on cathedrals and Pyramids, traveled almost as a means of confirming their own moral superiority. They took their baksheesh back in the form of a deeper smugness. In such cases, travel...
...Zouave gaiety. In our own time, we have expected our candidates for public office to have a war record. In his Inaugural Address, John Kennedy, skipper of PT109, called his a generation "tempered by war." Not every soldier, of course, went to battle with George Patton's mystic glee; he wrote his wife in 1944 that "peace is going to be a hell of a letdown...
WHBER IS CAREFUL because he knows he has to be His field has been associated with mystics and crackpots and flower-strewn gurus who ask you for money. He goes out of his way to document his assertions, sometimes slapping seven different sources onto one sentence, as if to say "See, it isn't only me who feels this way." Among his 444 sources are a lot of counter-culture authorities like Wilhelm Reich and other fringe types who rely on each other for corroboration and consequently get discarded en masse, but Wilber also anchors his theory with some powerful...
...gave America a metaphysics: he sought to join the nation's intellect to its power. Emerson sanctified America's ambitions. Like the nation, he was, he said, "an endless seeker, with no past at my back." He was the wonder-rabbi of Concord, Mass., our bishop, the mystic of our possibilities...
From this blunt and colloquial beginning, the piece builds to a Twirlers epiphany of mystic anguish...