Word: mysticism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seen the World Tree, tucked away where it is in the Graduate Center, and we can't think of a better place for it than in the Square. But the ideal solution would be to make a giant rotary out of the whole area. With a challenge like that--Mystic River Bridge signs at three of the six or so exits--even the police wouldn't have time to loiter, and the present city government would almost certainly be re-elected...
...mystic, prayer is not an occasional petition to God, but full-time work as tangible and varied in technique as anything a man can make with hand or mind. Sometimes a mystic is able to leave behind some manual or blueprint to help others with the work of prayer...
...taking his own amoral unconscious as a point of departure for half-romantic, half-eclectic labors Klee followed a great German tradition which began with Goethe. Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, mystic Rudolph Steiner and Psychologists Freud and Jung all worked the same...
...Director Donn Fischer worked out the comic business for the Order of the Mystic Marauders and the song "Lovelorn," he is doubly to be commended. In any event, the whole production showed an authoritative and experienced manipulating hand. David Beer's sets, especially the simple, effective Waterfront, showed this same humorous purpose and skilled execution...
Alastair Sim plays Inspector Poole, the man whose mysterious power drags the recognition of their own guilt from the reluctant people. Poole's mystic qualities are clearer when it becomes obvious that he is really the group's collective conscience. In this role, Sim is neither better nor worse than he has been in all his films that I have seen. In fact, his playing is most always the same from picture to picture, Sim being a sort of one man acting convention in the manner of such set characters as Charles Laughton and Robert Newton. He is always superb...