Word: mysticism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Inside the palace of the Aga Khan at Poona, wizened, rebellious, mystical Mohandas K. Gandhi last week began his tenth hunger strike since 1918. At the age of 74, Gandhi said that he planned to live on a diet of fruit juice and water for 21 days.* He embarrassed the British, who have branded Gandhi as a traitor at worst, a troublesome mystic at best. For his own Congress party followers (including at least 60,000 who have been arrested since last August) the fast was an effort to bolster sagging morale and stiffen the fraying fibers of resistance...
...brain to apply OPA's reasoning to other economic data. For instance, in the boom year of 1929 the cost of living was 27% above the depression year of 1932. Multiplying the national income in 1932 (which roughly represents net production) by this percentage, one arrives at the mystic figure of $11 billions, represented by the middle block above. This is the amount of money which the American public apparently "saved" through falling prices and the worst depression in history. Conversely, between 1932 and 1942 the cost of living in the U.S. rose by 19%. Applying this...
...public that it is going to have to sacrifice for the war effort, last week released an ingenious chart to the U.S. press which seemed to prove just the opposite. Part of the chart is the block reproduced at the left of the above diagram inscribed with the mystic number: $6 billions. According to OPA this is the amount which U.S. citizens have been "saved" through the fact that prices did not rise as rapidly as they did during the last...
Aurobindo's ashram (a retreat for disciples of a religious leader) is only one of many in mystic-minded India. Best known is Mohandas Gandhi's. Much more worldly, and very pro-British is Aurobindo's, which he set up 33 years ago. There Margaret Wilson responds to the name Dishta, meaning in Sanskrit the discovery of the divine self...
...generation that grew up to be the fathers of this graduating class, mystic faith reached a crazy high during the war years, when they were still young. Boys of twenty were found dead in France with prayer books in their pockets. But those who came back left the prayer books behind them and had nothing to read to the children they hardly knew. It was not easy to teach religion and idealism from memory, so what their sons learned was something less than the absolute beliefs that Victorian generations had never thought to question...