Word: mysticism
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...medium. The message is provided by his charming, red-haired daughter Verena (Madeleine Potter) who, assisted by her father's attendant spirits, delivers a heart-wrenching address on behalf of oppressed women. The camera alternates between a prim-looking, middle-aged woman listening to Verena's rhetoric in mystic rapture, tears in her eyes: and a handsome young man, listening with appreciation that looks less like a convert...
...unattractive, narrows-minded, selfish character--without condescension. There is genuine pathos about Olive's obsessiveness, as it is evident that Verena is her sole emotional focus: suffragism her only raison d'etre. But even her idealism is problematic--talking about women's suffrage, she sounds more like a mystic than a social reformer...
...heaviest hasn't come yet. They have private clubs, but you can't join any of them. And I said: Why? Because we can't afford it? He said no. Because you're colored; they won't let you in. So I walked off in a kind of mystic mood, dejected but not dejected. My old man looked at me and asked: Well, what you going to do? You gonna quit? Just look around and find something else...
...those who made a point of walking behind the cathedral's main altar to have a look during the statue's ten-day showing, the reactions were mixed, but rarely mild. It was "not at all blasphemous" to Katherine Austin, who thought it reflected a mystic Christian view that "sees Christ as our mother." Beverly Stewart, on the other hand, said, "It's disgraceful. God and Christ are male. They're playing with a symbol we've believed in for all our lives." The Christa seemed to be doing her job as a focus...
...happen by the sheer force of their convictions. Presidents usually find it easier to influence events at home, where their powers of persuasion are felt most keenly. If the economy continues to hold up, Reagan believes his fourth year will be dominated by foreign affairs. How to reach the mystic Syrian Hafez Assad and the ghostly Soviet Yuri Andropov? He is using Goodman's release in an attempt to change the Lebanon environment before time runs out for a settlement. In the next week or so he plans to give a major address urging the Soviets to come back...