Word: mysticism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
Schrödinger is a mathematical mystic. Says he: "There is no worldly truth but mathematical truth. In politics, history and diplomacy, truth changes from day to day and people get different concepts of right. But mathematics never...
...summer of 1939, with World War II only days away, Davis was at his summer home in Mystic, Conn., writing the last chapters of a mystery novel for the Saturday Evening Post. He was a respected, reasonably successful author. He had his summer home, and a winter apartment on Manhattan's Morningside Heights, a wide circle of literary and bridge-playing friends. He also had the free lancer's occupational psychosis: worry over when the well would...