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...last day of the month Harvard students are broke, 39 is a mystic Hindu number (like Ali Babs and the Forty Thieves, of which one was just poor but honest)., and the average allowance of students in Indic Philology 39b is 39 dollars (amazing coincidence you think?). Now who takes Ind. Phil. 39b. a snap course, why that great group of takers of snap courses, the Lampoon. There we have it. Last day, 39 dollars, Ind. Phil. 39b. 'Poon. It's plain as day. THE 'POON DID IT. That's all right, folks, don't applaud. It was elementary...
...Under whatever semblance or form of World Federation may be established [after the war], China will never, judging from her present experiences during the war, be accorded true equality, because she is Asiatic." 2) A mystic belief that Asia will come into its own. "I saw China growing strong, and Russia growing stronger, and all Asia growing strong. I know that this nation of 450,000,000 people, united and awakened and purged by the war-fire, is coming up; the strength lies in her and nothing the western nations can do can stop her or keep her down...
...Time Past and Time Future." The heart of Eliot's meditation is Time. Not time as that hypnosis of clocks and of history which holds all human existence captive-though this sort of time gets his attention too-but time as the mystic apprehends it, "at the still point of the turning world." Time beats in these poems like the seabell which, in one of them...
Expressionists, Abstractionists. The work of Kootz's own modern favorites is derived from the "expressionists [who] use the psychology of color ... to express a moody, mystic Weltschmerz." He singles out Abraham Rattner, Walter Quirt, Paul Burlin. Of Rattner (see cut), he remarks...
...Without religion there can be no real understanding of life. Without faith our human problems, great and small, are difficult of solution." Christian Wife. The Methodist Church also published the vivid and more emotional testimony of the Madame: "By nature I am not a religious person ... a mystic. I am practical minded...