Word: mysticism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is some honest historical conflict, and a bit of honest unhappiness, in this movie. Spencer Tracy too often gazes stonily at God's sea of grass to show that he is both rugged individualist and nature mystic, but he plays with considerable force and style. As the decades roll by, Melvyn Douglas looks as wretched as the most vindictive moralist could decently expect. Miss Hepburn looks tense too, but arouses interest chiefly through her beautiful turn-of-the-century costumes...
Evidence suggesting that Eugene E. Harmon '50 died of a self inflicted wound was released by City Medical Examiner William J. Brickley last night, three days after the ex-student's body was found in the Mystic River beneath the Chelsea north drawbridge...
Death by a small calibre bullet was the official verdict listed yesterday after an autopsy on the body of Eugene E. Harmon '50, ex-College Freshman, who was found two days ago in the Mystic River beneath the Chelsea north drawbridge and presumed before the autopsy to be a victim of drowning...
...melon. In summer he saw the savage boredom of village life in Brunete on the baked plain, where young men crucified bats whose wings tore as easily as old rags. He saw a starved boy in the ragged tinsel of a matador waiting, with the face of a mystic, for a bull's charge in a drunkenly howling village square...
...decision to restore the painting was . . . greatly influenced when, during the war years, the great painting had to be unrolled in the daylight and, startlingly, in the merciless sunlight, the muddy-looking, pseudo-mystic brown-black crepe suddenly appeared to be shadow...