Word: mysticism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...then that he gets his strength for the day," explains Madame Chiang. Comments a Westerner who knows him well: "He is a very spiritual person, almost a mystic. One of the reasons people sometimes find him stubborn is that he tries to find the answer not only in himself, but in the God he serves." Commented a Western-educated Chinese scholar more tartly: "He is a saintly man. But saintly men are also impossible...
...revolt against their Turkish oppressors, was just the kind of lonely, romantic figure of danger the British needed in World War I to offset the unrelieved, anonymous four-year horror of the Western Front. His saga became legend. Hailed by many as a masterpiece, his own monumental, turgid and mystic Seven Pillars of Wisdom became the bible of a widespread cult of Lawrence admirers, whose most romantic ideals were justified when their unpredictable hero renounced the world at the pinnacle of his fame to join the R.A.F. as lowly Aircraftman Ross...
...pistol team Wednesday won its first match since its organization last year when it out-shot the Mystic Valley Gun Club, 1005 to 1008. High scorer for the match was Kirby Scherer with 274, followed in order by Henry Pahl, Colin Doane and Lloyd Roberts...
This was the fifth match of the season for the team, which has previously lost to the Merchant Marines, Annapolis, the Coast Guard, and the Mystic Valley Gun Club. Its score has improved almost 200 points since the first match against Mystic Valley...
...Herrera. Actually, the painting has all the impact of a good window display. A luminous figure of a beardless Christ, face averted, floats before a dull gold cross, dramatically spotlighted against a dark sky. Floating with fine structural irrelevancy before the figure are four of Dali's small, mystic cubes, "the most perfect of geometric bodies." Dali has painted his wife and favorite model, Gala, luxuriously robed adoring the Crucifixion...