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...Teresa of Avila,* the 16th century mystic, never liked the picture that was painted of her at 60 by the pious but uninspired Fray Juan de la Miserias. "God forgive you, Fray Juan," she told him, "for having painted me so very ugly and stiff." But for more than three centuries Fray Juan's painting was the only likeness of St. Teresa the world had ever seen...
Ghent townspeople, examining their cathedral's prized possession, noted one startling change. The mystic lamb now has four ears instead of two-the extra pair being the work of an early retoucher. "It would have taken two or three more months to remove the extra ears," explained an official. "And Ghent wanted the painting back...
Child of Morning has Margaret O'Brien in a hectic role of Clare Boothe's very mystic and moral play. 8:30 at the Shubert...
Shahn is as articulate about his new approach to art as he was about the old. "I guess I'm a mystic," he says casually. "The older I get, the more I paint from intuition. I remember one summer going out in a rowbqat and being startled by the beauty of a film of oil on the water . . . My reaction was religious...
Indifferent to conventional religious faiths, she was seeking consolation and cure in the occult doctrines of a magnetic Georgian mystic named George Ivanovich Gurdjieff,-when death cut all her questions short on Jan. 9, 1923. Bogey had Tig's tombstone inscribed with a line from Shakespeare's Henry IV. It was a line which she had always loved and sometimes lived by: "But I tell you, my lord fool, out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety...