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What does it all mean? Dali believes that the two deepest preoccupations of mid-century are religious mysticism and atomic physics. His picture combines the two: the Roman Catholic dogma of the Virgin Mary's bodily assumption to Heaven as seen by an age newly aware of nuclear physics. But why the rhinoceros horns? Most important, says Catholic Dali. "The rhinoceros horn embodies a mystic feeling similar to that of bullfighting. The bull is a Spanish god who sacrifices himself. Bullfighters are his priests. " Says Dali, who plans to show his Madonna in Manhattan this Christmas season: "I have...
...night late in August and the small dressing rooms reeked with sweat and perfumed grease. Yet, to the outsiders this enhanced the Brattle's almost mystic quality. They talked freely, voicing their hopes that more more actors would turn to projects like the Brattle's. Most of them made their living in television or small-time theatre, and the Brattle was a temple in which to worship the theatre's best...
...bright but poor local chap. Chester, twice Nina's age, is aware of her condition but considers the marriage a bargain. It means a tie-up with a family still socially important, and Nina's small fortune is a windfall. Chester is a Protestant evangelist, almost a mystic, and also burning with radical political ambitions...
Each contributor was asked to write about his favorite saint. Two saints, Francis of Assisi and the Spanish mystic John of the Cross, were selected twice. Poet Noyes has written about St. John the Evangelist as the most "intuitive" of the Apostles. George Lamb, a young British Catholic, discusses St. Simeon Stylites, the 5th century hermit who spent 37 years sitting on a pillar. Psychiatrist Karl Stern writes about St. Théreèse of Lisieux, a bourgeois French girl who died in 1897, at 24, in a Carmelite cloister. Also included: one Pope, Pius V; two Jesuits, Ignatius...
...your "Theology of Saucers" [Aug. 18] article: It is well for Father Francis Connell to know that whether flying saucers are real or ionized air bubbles, people on other planets do exist. According to Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772), Swedish scientist, theologian and mystic, God created myriads of worlds and they are all peopled. Father Connell has labored mightily, like a 20th century Aquinas, to classify the status of beings from other planets, but actually, as to religion, they fall into no specifically Catholic categories...