Word: mysticisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Klee-they are blue.* Last week, they exhibited in the Daniel Gallery, Manhattan. Thither went some who were informed, some who were curious. "Why," asked the latter, "are they blue? Why do they call their pictures, Dynamism, Abstraction, Mystic, Musical, Choral, Life, Silence?" "To have names," wearily, kindly, replied the informed...
...other Shamrock wearer I have ever met has in his whole carcass. Small, wiry, with an effort almost of crookedness in the bend of his walk, with a face crinkled and traced by the ways of much laughter, he is constantly making his little jokes. Something of the mystic, something of the comedian and a little of the clown, he looks at life with great enthusiasm and tempers that enthusiasm with a wit that is at once tender and ironical...
...BROTHER'S FACE?Dhan Gopal Mukerji?Dutton ($3.00). With a supreme touch of mystic philosophy which transports the reader to the domes of India, Mukerji relates his home-coming after "many years of wandering." His brother's face is indeed his brother's; but something more. It is India and Gandhi. A most absorbing book...
...white man's civilization. When theatre crowds are bustling along the noisy streets of Buffalo and Montreal, the forests will look upon familiar scenes from the past. While sacred fires shed an eery glow upon the pines, red men will dance as of old, with mystic rite and stately tread, chanting their hymns to the Great Spirit...
...studied the folk tales of the island and reproduced them in his fascinating prose. I believe that Colum's residence in America and his fondness for us, has been a precious addition, for more than any other quality, it seems to me, our writers lack the sense of mystic fantasy, of homely beauty, of child-like imagery that this Peter Pan-like Irishman...