Word: mysticism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Amidst this onrush of decay, Ruby fights heroically to preserve the integrity of her own family. When her Scottish husband Gynt becomes a bird-loving mystic and proposes to search for wisdom in the Far East, Ruby is stricken, but has the courage to let him go. When stolid daughter Miranda, in mute rebellion against her mother's beauty, proposes to marry a mincing dressmaker, Ruby pulls together all her resources and prods Miranda into a decent marriage with a likable young man with the imposing name of James Edouard Goethe de Bas-Pouilly. The implication of the story...
When he returned to England last May, he began sprawling his new ideas on huge canvases, with the jagged outlines of modern cities and the twisting vegetable forms of the tropics, using "that atavistic something" of the primitive artist to illustrate such super-civilized symbols as The Mystic Marriage and Human World...
Died. Sri Aurobindo, 78, Indian poet, philosopher, mystic, who gave up his career as a political revolutionary against British rule, became a religious leader to thousands of followers; of uremia; in Pondicherry, French India...
ABOARD PLANE OVER THE BAHAMAS, Oct. 25--Rumin Coak, hollowchested, sunken-eyed, eight-feet zombie from the mystic voodooland of Haiti, has agreed to replace Hu Flung Hucy ocC as CRIMSON prognosticator. He is already flying north with us, alongside this DC-4 clipper...
Bearing gifts of incense for the occult natives, pairs of newsmen headed for Haiti's voodoo country, forbidden Tibet, the Congo, and mystic Baffin Island to replace wizened H Flung Huey ocC, whose untimely resignation came Sunday night...