Word: mysticism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Inner Belt itself is part of a system of expressways which will facilitate movement between the center of the Metropolitan area and the suburbs. The Belt will extend in an are of approximately seven miles from a point in Charlestown near the Mystic River Bridge to Massachusetts Avenue in Roxbury, near the Boston City Hospital. It will penetrate Somerville, Brookline, and parts of Boston, as well as Cambridge. Because of complications on the Brookline side of the Charles, the road must enter Cambridge somewhere west of the Boston University Bridge. At this point the geographical tragi-comedy begins...
...school's image, which has ever been too healthy anyway. Birmingham's treatment of the hackneyed surface characteristics serves to reinforce nearly all the prevailing myths about the Ivy League, and his recourse to the "somethin' else" explanation leaves the impression that the League is bathed in mystic snottiness...
...novels or films, particularly if they are at once both French and Catholic, are often difficult to evaluate, presenting, as they do, a narrow, dogmatic view in the guise of universality. Robert Bresson is French and Catholic (the Brattle also touts him as "a former painter, a maverick, a mystic, and a solitary"); his pre-war Diary of a Country Priest, even at its most honest, often seems wildly improbable and faintly absurd...
...capital in the early hours of the morning visiting bakeries "to taste the people's bread." He engages in talks with the goatskin-clad poor who live in reed huts on the mud flats of Baghdad's Tigris river. He loses no opportunity to expound on the mystic ideals of "Arab brotherhood," and has even re-established politely formal relations with the U.A.R., whose rulers, not long ago, stood accused in Iraqi public opinion of having engineered the attempt to kill...
...When it came to his own painting, he refused to be hurried, would go through hundreds of "sittings"-three-to four-hour stretches before the easel-to achieve what he wanted. With a lesser talent, the result might have been dry and academic. Under Dickinson's brush a mystic world of magic harmonies emerged...