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...note pinned up in a public lavatory boasted about the murders over the signature, "Slasher Evans." A young Detroit girl received a phone call threatening her life. One fearful insomniac sought police protection because he heard mysterious noises in the night. Every prostrate drunk brought forth a murder rumor. Mystic-minded citizens noted that all the murders had occurred under a full moon...
General Anami was a military mystic. He once called on Japan's soldiers "to defend the Imperial land even after death with your souls." When he heard the news of his son's death in battle, his only visible emotion was to crush a flower bud in his hand. He held out against surrender. Before committing harakiri, he wrote a farewell to his Emperor ("I humbly beg . . . pardon ... for my great sins") and a poem...
...barrel-chested populator of Frogner Park was a mystic, a recluse, and a scoffer at all art-except his own. Largely self-taught. Sculptor Vigeland emerged, in 1905, from a cocoon of starvation and obscurity, to receive a prize beyond the wildest dreams of patron-seekers. The Norwegian Government had agreed to commission him with a carte blanche...
...escapist Utopias that mush roomed in the shadow of the industrial revolution. Father Rapp's was the least suggestive of milk & honey. His first ven ture was in Germany. The spiritual leader of a flock of phlegmatic German peasants, Peasant Rapp was a mystic with a sound business head. In 1804 he brought his peo ple to the U.S. ''not because he believed that God's voice would speak out of the marsh more clearly than it had spoken out of the vineyard in Wiirttemberg - but be cause the land was fierce and cheap." Celibate Communists...
Then St. Denis turned mystic, dreamed vaguely of a Christian dance church in which body rhythms would replace orthodox hymns and sermons. Shawn was more interested in Indian lore and athletic male dancers. They disbanded their Denishawn partnership. "Ted and I are not divorced," she said, "only esthetically separated. I am full of temples and he is full of boy ballets...