Word: mysticism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Evers were gunned down by calculating killers, it is plausible to argue that the Kennedy brothers were assassinated by romantics gone awry. Many strands of the romanticism were tied together in an ugly knot in the Sharon Tate murder: victims who exemplified an affluent hedonism; alleged murderers from a mystic hippie cult. The cult of violence can be kin to romanticism, as was shown by the 19th century-bred anarchists, action poets of revolution who assassinated several European heads of state as well as President William McKinley. In the '60s, at least some youth were romantically attracted to violence...
...sailors are now considering the Medford shore of the Mystic as well as a site on the Charles, Woodworth said. The proposed facility would cost $175,000. About one-third of that sum has already been pledged to the club, he said...
This week, the Metropolitan District Commission (MDC) refused to let the club build its new sailing facility at an MDC-owned site on the Somerville shore of the Mystic River Basin...
...took the action after Somerville officials had attacked the proposed lease of the land to the yacht club. Arguing that this city could not afford the loss of the recreation land, Rep. Vincent Pire (D-Som.) said, "Harvard should stay on the banks of the Charles and leave the Mystic River alone...
This August. the MDC told the alumni group that it could build the sailing facility somewhere on the Mystic River Basin. Though the Somerville side of the basin is now out of the question, an MDC spokesman said yesterday that the agency might approve building the facility on the Medford shore of the basin...