Word: mysticism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...often to Episcopal churches because Lady Bird, although raised a Methodist, became an Episcopalian after going to St. Mary's, an Episcopal junior college in Dallas. The Johnsons were married in an Episcopal church in San Antonio, and both Luci Baines and Lynda Bird are Episcopalians. At Camp Mystic in Texas, where she spent many summers, Luci often served as chaplain of her tribe because she could "pray so well when called on unexpectedly...
Everything else about the production--the setting, the costuming, and the excellent entrescene score by Jean Prodromides--is either quaint or grotesque, but never bland. In this early play, his third, Brecht was already the brash, colorful, mystic iconoclast. All of his qualities are respected and encouraged in this successful production at the Hotel Bostonian Playhouse...
...Ronald Weston, contributes the cheapest piece of prose to the current issue. In "Of Transcendental Beauty and Crawling Horror," Western describes his experiences with peyote and belladonna. He anticipates the first question with this answer. "I decided to try drugs because I am an artist, and something of a mystic, but I am a Buddist mystic, not a Christian...
Garland. Garland. The Great God Garland. The Rise of the American Mystic. Maybe. Disillusioned by the war, America expands beyond her intellectual boundaries. There is Prohibition, and the Black Sox scandal, and it would explain Wilson's paralysis. A vision: Garland expressed them...
...life (absurd beneath a baseball cap), it was the perfect name for the legends dreamed up to account for his sad silence. "Thelonious Monk? He's a recluse, man." In the mid-'40s, when Monk's reputation at last took hold in the jazz underground, his name and his mystic utterances ("It's always night or we wouldn't need light") made him seem the ideal Dharma Bum to an audience of hipsters: anyone who wears a Chinese coolie hat and has a name like that must be cool...