Word: mysticisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...That is what an angel is, an idea of God." So said the great mystic, Meister Eckhart. But ideas have no visual form, and the struggle to make angels concrete absorbed the energies of Europe's artists for nearly 1,000 years. The angel became one of the master images of religious experience...
Agathon, once an adviser to Lykourgos, has now been thrown into prison, officially for complicity in the Helot rebellion but actually because he represents a different, more serious threat to Lykourgos's rule. A leering, over-weight, foul-minded old mystic, constantly eating onions, farting, and peeking in windows to watch elderly couples making love. Agathon scorns the Spartan ideal and gleefully embodies its antithesis. The novel deals with how he got this way and how he views himself, the people he knows, the universe he inhabits. Gardner adroitly uses the device of alternating two manuscripts: Agathon's disjointed writings...
...argue endlessly over such a definition. Chavez, properly understood, seems more an Eastern mystic than a flaming Latino. The Panthers appear to many Establishment Jews as sufficiently threatening to make any infatuation with them rather unthinkable. And it's to our dishonor that the American Indian will have to be rehabilitated before he can appear romantic again. And other chic causes? Like the Southampton party for women's lib. Certainly, whatever she may be, exotic Betty Friedan...
...question of an increase of one-half inch in the level of the worst possible flood that could occur in the Mystic River area. It just wouldn't make a hell of a lot of difference to build on the site," Gruson said...
...decision to deny filling rights, issued by Natural Resources Commissioner Arthur W. Brownell, said that Blair Pond is essential to proper flood control in the Mystic River watershed and that filling it could possibly lead to extensive flooding in the area...