Word: mysticism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reason sometimes seems to check emotion, the head to rule the heart ? in his music as in his life. And yet, there is in Bernstein's character a power of belief, a religious strain so insistent that it drives him at times to the mystic verges. In his music, too, there can arise, like an ancestral memory, a whisper of Semitic mys tery, a shadowy Hasidic laugh...
...Term was long and tedious, and a review is even more so. The whole thing was summed up back in November by the Chief Storekeeper of the local ROTC unit. The Storekeeper, who practices the mystic art of Persian rugmaking, claimed that his insights into the future were "too frightening to reveal...
Their reasons for playing seem mystic...
...poor little rich boy there are some gold-plated gadgets. Mystic River Sales has a junior fire engine, "The Firebird" ($500), that a child can drive at 5 m.p.h., operating a 1½-gallon pressure water tank that squirts water 25 ft. The Charles Wm. Doepke Mfg. Co. has an electric locomotive, "The Yardbird" ($225), that can transport a young engineer from room to room on an eight-inch gauge track. F.A.O. Schwarz has a wooden stockade ($75) with corner peephole boxes through which young pioneers can see the "attacking enemy...
...storekeeper has no definite ideas for the future, but plans to teach the art even if unable to secure the sponsorship of a university. Whatever his success, it is probable that the quiet mystic will continue to gain insights into the universal order. At this very moment, he has drawn up a list of predictions "too frightening to reveal...