Word: mysticism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recent article, Atkinson characterized O'Neill as "a breeding mystic who dreamed of peace and beauty beyond anything he had personally experienced." The playwright himself once said, "I am not interested in plays which are merely about the relation of man to man. I am interested in nothing except the relation...
...spectacular effects, it remains an excellent picture, and a young classic. Like many of his fellow European directors, Cocteau dominates his work. Since, almost by tradition, fairy tales are short on precise or involved characterization, Cocteau could not rely on sympathy to hold the audience's interest on the mystic proceedings. Nevertheless, he grips, and almost strangles each viewer's attention. Nor does he just exploit weird effects. Cocteau's directional touches such as camera angles and positions, lighting and movement of the actors are things that would vastly improve even the most chewed-over plot...
...principals, Jennifer Jones, her hair blonded for the occasion, does the best with the best part&−she manages to catch the mystic fervor of the truly creative liar. Bogart and Lollobrigida are a little too surface-smooth with their lines, suggesting sometimes that underneath the words they do not really know what they...
...when his contemporaries dreamed of becoming cowboys or firemen, seven-year-old Lucas Marsh already knew his life work: he would be a doctor. He was handicapped from the first. Mamma, a neurotic and mystic who believed that only the spirit could heal, hated the very idea of medicine and hysterically begged Luke to forget it. Daddy Marsh, the crude, unscrupulous owner of a string of harness shops, insisted that Luke shift his sights to business and the big money. Luke obediently said yes, mother, yes, dad; but what his parents never knew was that they had produced...
...together, the problem is different. Aguado's case is insoluble, since his sickness consists in being a man incapable of functioning as a man. Unlike Aguado, who torments himself, Carmen has found serenity in "the very hugeness of her misfortune." She is in love with a mystic who has renounced her because he believes that "to be happy now is a tremendous sin," and she knows she will never see him again...