Word: mysticisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Coach Michael Horn's troubles began with the men's varsity's sixth-place showing in the Friis Trophy meet up on Mystic Lake. Host team Tufts ran away with the event, outdistancing second-place University of Washington and the rest of the 17-team field in what looked more like an OpSail maneuver than a collegiate yacht race...
...ridiculous to have that many teams on the Mystic Lake," Horn said yesterday. "That's an awfully small lake, and there wasn't much room to sail," he added...
East West Journal is, in short, a periodical re-vamped in this month's issue into averitable treasure chest of Handy Hints for the modern world-caretaker. All in all, this creation is somewhat akin to the union of People magazine and a macrobiotic mystic's handbook--a sort of Zen and the art of togetherness manual. The sort of reading-matter you pick up to read as they're charging up the groceries. Check-out-counter spiritualism...
...religious pageants as Ben-Hur, The Robe, the remake of King of Kings, and The Greatest Story Ever Told. In recent years the interpretations have become broader. Jesus was a fierce champion of the oppressed in The Gospel According to St. Matthew, a crucified clown in Godspell, a befuddled mystic in Jesus Christ Superstar, a well-intentioned charlatan in The Passover Plot. A Danish producer is even trying to turn out a pornographic flick about the Galilean...
...government. Although Jumblatt was a Socialist, and a Moscow favorite who won the Lenin Peace Prize in 1972, he owned vast tracts of land and opposed Communism. Revered by the Druzes as their secular leader, he studied Buddhism, Hinduism and Christian theology and regarded himself as a mystic. Shortly before his death, in fact, Jumblatt had been planning a trip to a monastery in the Himalayas for "spiritual exercises." He had last gone there -for the same purpose-before beginning the final fruitless struggle to reform his country...