Word: mysticism
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...undead. In the '40s Critic Edmund Wilson mused about the persistence of ghost stories: "What is the reason, then -- in these days when a lonely country house is likely to be equipped with electric light, radio and telephone -- for our returning to these antiquated tales? . . . First, the longing for mystic experience which seems always to manifest itself in periods of social confusion . . . Second, the instinct to inoculate ourselves against panic at the real horrors loose on the earth...
Saint-Exupery was an odd mixture: public figure and recluse, mystic and skeptic, fighter and dreamer. He abandoned the Roman Catholicism of his childhood but not his religious yearnings. "It's strange that I can't believe, that I don't have faith. One loves God without hope: That would be ^ something that would suit me -- the monastery of Solesmes and Gregorian chant." He referred often to the monastic life, and seems to have thought seriously about taking up such an existence after the war. He did not get the chance. But his ad- mirers, knowing that the issues...
...tired Harvard--which had already sailed over 20 races on the Mystic River--proceeded to lose to the Jumbos...
Enter the hero. As a gesture of friendship, Jack takes his princess girlfriend Lilly (Mia Sara) to see a pair of mystic unicorns, the keepers of the light of the universe without which the sun could not rise. As usual in this sort of drama, it's the girl who gets the plot going. Intoxicated by the beauty-and muscularity?--of these beasts, Lilly unwittingly leads them into a trap set by one of Evil's assistants. One unicorn down, one to go. And the cosmic order has officially been screwed...
Although Gaddafi is often described as a madman, an irrational mystic who speaks in rhyme but without reason, there is a contorted yet intent philosophical underpinning to his actions and ideology. His madness has method in it--indeed, his apparent madness is a method. His very unpredictability is a way of keeping his enemies off guard. He revels when those in the West denounce him as a devil; it only confirms the righteousness of his cause...