Word: mystics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Black in a country like America, and the pain impels them to clutch hungrily at the spirits of Black folklore that live in their dreams, their songs and their stories. Morrison does not make Black life a retreat or an imposed exile from white society; it exists as a mystic world where the present is infused with the frightening richness of the past. Sometimes the past speaks so loudly to these characters that it drowns out their connections to the present. Morrison's characters can be very lonely people who hear little except the voices inside their heads...
...song, but at other times, the musical myth diffuses not only the present world of the characters but the plot of the novel as well. The Biblical allegories and the legendsare themselves so radiant that they divert the reader from the much flatter characters who sift through this mystic past. Time becomes a very confusing element with dead characters too closely blended to living ones, adding incoherence to the work...
Other local runners and athletic equipment salesmen mention the banks of the Charles River and the path around Mystic Lake as some of the most popular jogging courses, but it's hard to argue with O'Neil's logic...
...whether or not President Reagan's scheme of tax cuts and spending reductions makes a visible dent in the federal deficit, unemployment, and inflation. Weicker, for all of his legislative eccentricity, has supported the administration's efforts in general terms. If Reagan succeeds, Weicker can tell his neighbors in Mystic that he was part of the president's team. He will also be able to paint any primary challenge from the far right as an obstacle to further GOP success...
...attack. Two weeks earlier, disregarding State Department warnings of certain reprisal by the Iranians, President Carter had permitted the ailing Shah to enter the U.S. from his temporary hideaway in Mexico to be treated for lymphatic cancer in a New York City hospital. The Ayatullah, then 79, a Muslim mystic and fundamentalist who despised the West and held the U.S. in special hatred for its long support of the Shah, had flown into a pious rage. At his headquarters in the holy city of Qum, 80 miles to the south of Tehran, he told student followers that the U.S. embassy...