Word: mysticism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some 600 years ago, an unknown English mystic began writing a little book addressed to a young man who planned to devote his life to the contemplative worship of God. It is still one of the great manuals of the devotional life...
...shabby enough for the radiator of a farmer's jalopy. To celebrate Christmas, Graves once gilded his beard and eyebrows, and he has been known to leave his shoes on the escalator of a Seattle department store while he himself took the elevator. He likes to talk a mystic mumbo-jumbo that leaves his admirers in open-mouthed confusion...
...Wallaces he has drawn (and quartered) "would find it difficult to live inside the same house together, let alone inside the same skin. . . . Henry Wallace No. 1 is a mystic, an amateur of esoteric doctrines. . . . Henry Wallace No. 2 is an opportunist, adapting himself to the pressures of the moment, ready to forswear his deepest convictions for immediate gain. . . . Wallace can only alternately express the two sides of his nature, thinking one moment like a Tibetan seer and the next like a cost accountant, acting one moment like St. Francis of Assisi and the next like Boss Hague...
Johnny Was No Mystic...
Sometimes Schuman seemed to have a split character. Two of his aides, who work in separate offices adjoining him, saw him differently. Said one: "To me, the man is a saint. Most people would call him a mystic." Said the other: "If he's a mystic, he certainly has both feet on the ground...