Word: mysticism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...game brawl. In the first scene the huge stevedore, Crown, with his blood on fire by liquor and the caresses of Bess, his woman, kills a man and then flees from the white man's justice leaving Bess to seek refuge with Porgy. Then comes one of the most mystic scenes ever to be put on the stage--the "saucer burial" of the dead man. While the Negroes chant and moan melancholy airs in the darkened room, they slowly give the widow enough money to save her husband's body from the medical students and give it proper burial. Soon...
Died. Dmitri Merejkowski, 76, Russian historical novelist, biographer (The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci), Christian mystic; in Paris...
...mystic yearning of the garden...
...Novelist Aldous Huxley this week published the first biography to be written in English. Father Joseph is an almost perfect subject for Aldous Huxley. The amoral novelist (Antic Hay, Point Counter Point) has become increasingly preoccupied with moral dilemmas (Eyeless in Gaza, Ends & Means) and increasingly a mystic...
What fascinates Huxley in Father Joseph is the moral dilemma of a mystic who is also a power politician, and whose whole active life is an illustration of Author Huxley's (and many other people's) pessimism about politics and history: "To all but the saints, who anyhow have no need of them, the lessons of history are totally unavailing." Huxley also finds Father Joseph very timely. "The road trodden by those bare horny feet led [through the Thirty Years War] to August 1914 and September...