Word: mysticisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There has always been a bit of the mystic in midterm and final grades. The student troops off to Memorial Hall and writes for an afternoon. Soon thereafter he receives a postcard; the only evaluation of his efforts is in a cryptic, insufficient mark. Though there were frequent requests by students who wanted to see the error of their ways, professors had a good excuse for not returning blue books. University regulations, they said, forbade handing the tests back to the students. Instead, the professor had to store the books for a full year. The ruling, perhaps, was a little...
Catherine Luce's set, with its tiny buildings, evokes the elfish, mystic atmosphere intended by Yeats. The bare stones and columns of the Fogg museum Court form a stage that is ideal in effect, if not in flexibility And in Purgatory, the starkness of a single block of stone in the center of the dimly lit stage is appropriately forbidding...
...next few years, O'Neill married and was divorced, prospected vainly for gold in Honduras jungles, went to sea and knocked around the Atlantic from Southampton to South Africa. For O'Neill, the sea was a mystic experience. Some of his best plays, e.g., The Moon of the Caribbees and some of his worst, e.g., Anna Christie, are salty with the tang of the sea, saltier still with the tongue of lonely, hard-bitten sailormen...
...arrived at a conclusion which was probably as true as such sweeping statements about any subject can ever be. Throughout the show, he maintained, "we find a common approach to life conceived of charm and optimism. Without evasions and without false sentimentality, the French painter expresses his love, his mystic respect of nature...
Died. Dylan Marlais Thomas, 39, Wales's bright young mystic of English poetry (Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog, Under Milk Wood), whose vivid, tempestuous verse won him both critics' acclaim and thousands of readers; of undisclosed causes, while on a lecture tour of the U.S.; in Manhattan...