Word: mysticism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...certainly not going because I've got itchy feet again, or because I can't stand America, or because there's any mystic fascination about war. . . . I'm going simply because there's a war on and I'm part of it. . . . I've got to-and I hate...
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...
...third rate operetta, "Carousel" is bad enough, but as a mystic fantasy with songs it is absurd and over-sentimental...