Word: mysticism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first lieutenant's commission in the Twentieth." Holmes returned the copy of Leviathan, went off to war and a wound in the throat at Antietam. "As he grew older," writes Biddle, "the thought of war came to mean ... a selfless surrender of individual comfort and ambition to some mystic faith that drew brave men together." Said Holmes in a Memorial Day address...
...Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum. . . . Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal. . . . There rises a mystic spiritual tone that gives meaning to the whole...
...gets its performance under "Gone With the Wind" length, the German producers of "The Brothers Karamazov" are forced to omit huge chunks of plot. The entire tale of Aliosha, dreamy near-mystic and perhaps the hero of the novel, is scrapped to make way for the study of Dmitri Karamazov, his love Grushenka, and the intricacies of another brutal murder. The German production is good so far as it goes, but Dostoevsky fans will weep at the wholesale butchery of the novel. Anna Sten, as the seductive Grushenka, contributes a fine performance...
...Dalloway an image of all London shines and synchronizes beneath the reverberations of London's belling clocks. In To The Lighthouse, which Critic Daiches calls "the perfection of Virginia Woolf's art," the rhythms of time and death and change suffuse and subtilize a half-mystic seascape, a long-delayed excursion, an equally delayed resolving of family discord...
This compact, brilliant critical biography is 1) an excellent life of Walt Whitman, 2) a just, if merciless, evaluation of him as poet, mystic and prophet of democracy, 3) an arduous, provocative sermon on the nature and responsibility of democracy and of art. Unlike most Whitman critics, Author Fausset avoids the extremes of most books about Whitman. He neither damns nor admires Whitman for being a homosexual. He does not claim that Whitman's poetry is as great as Homer's or merely a free verse Sears, Roebuck catalogue. He simply tries to explain what Whitman achieved...