Word: mysticisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There was also Huxley the pacifist and flirtatious mystic who, in 1937, left England and Europe behind. He moved permanently to Southern California, where he joined another deadly, though higher-paying hustle. Between novels and essays he wrote film scripts (among others for Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre). Finally there was Huxley the culture-explosion sage of the '50s and early '60s. Often in mousy tweed and what looked like a snakeskin tie, he toured campuses and symposia, discoursing in silvery tones on coming ecological di sasters, overpopulation, Shakespeare and the way of the Buddha...
...season as a part-time mystic concludes with one major upset...
...Harvard varsity squad finished fourth in an invitational race at Tufts on Mystic Lake last Saturday and fifth against MIT on the Engineers' end of the Charles last Sunday...
WILLIAM IRWIN THOMPSON, U.S. historian-mystic: Gandhi. For a society to be healthy, it must seek centers of authority and leadership that do not necessarily derive from political or economic power but from cultural and spiritual values as well. Mao recognized this; he did try to give up his power and lead through the authority of his Little Red Book-but he abandoned this effort because of the chaos that resulted from the Cultural Revolution...
...atheists cannot really substitute for the great sacrificial devotion to their tasks recognizable in the lives of the social reformers and natural philosophers of past centuries. Kepler, for example, was not only the most profoundly original of the great scientists, but also the closest to being a religious mystic, seeking to justify his faith by finding regularity in the universe. Unless Harvard can teach lessons like this, and like Toynbee's demonstration of the life-giving force of religious ideas in society, its possible rank as the best American university will prove of no ultimate value...