Word: mysticism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cousin to Riesman's other-directed individual, her ideal new man a reflection of his inner-directed person. But where earnest Author Riesman deals at length with economic and political behavior, romantic Author Whitman deals, no less earnestly, with man's inner life, the role of the mystic and of the church, the possibility of rebirth or of what Jung calls individuation. Riesman writes as a social scientist, describing and classifying. Author Whitman comes close to being a preacher. She aims to persuade, and she often does. Many of her readers will reach the happy conclusion that...
...poetry in the Commencement issue seems largely designed to prove the esoteric leanings of Advocate contributors, for three of the poems have works of art as their subjects. Jennifer MacLeish (no relation) is the most successful, possibly because her poem about the mystic love of St. Francis is simple in conception, which allows a great deal of lyric beauty. Her rhythm comes in soft waves, like the gliding of the proverbial spiritual dove, and she implements it by her visual construction, which gives the impression of ascension. While Derry Griscom's more complex poem about the sculpted figure...
...Advocate has two interesting stories by its Radcliffe contributors. In "The Magic Circle" Cynthia Rich has captured the spirit and mind of a child without writing childishly repetitive sentences and without resorting to mystic thought about Youth. Why does a child cry for no reason at all? Because of the way the waves at the beach come crashing down and because of the way a man with a black hairy chest can stare at a little boy. There is no pretentiousness here, only honest insight...
...Portable Sickroom. To avoid Hamyopia, Chekhov traveled widely. But the Russian hinterland rarely sent Chekhov into those flights of mystic brotherhood common to 19th century Russian intellectuals. He approached it with a clothespin ever ready to clamp to his nose, as when he described a provincial sausage: "The odor was as if you had entered a stable at the moment the coachman was unwinding his leg puttees; when you started chewing the stuff you experienced a sensation like sinking your teeth into a tar-smeared dog's tail." Yet he spent a heroic overworked year heading off a cholera...
...many Americans, an egg roll is something on the menu of a Chinese restaurant; to the citizens of Washington, D.C., however, it is a mystic sign of spring. For generations, every Easter Monday, young Washingtonians have been aroused at cockcrow and subjected to the city's egg rolls. On that day thousands of citizens flock to the Lion House hill at the Zoo to hurl Easter eggs around, lounge in the sun, litter the grass, trample on other citizens, and harass the police and the National Parks maintenance men. Hundreds more attend egg rollings at churches, schools and private...