Word: mystics
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...team competed on Mystic Lake in Medford for the Friis Trophy, tying for second in a competitive field. The Crimson came in behind Tufts and Yale, and just ahead of Dartmouth. Although that finish sounds close, it was in fact even tighter...
...racing wasn’t as successful as the two team’s first, the finishes from last Saturday and Sunday were still solid. In a series of smaller races at BU, Harvard captured a fifth and a third place. The women’s team sailed on Mystic Lake against teams from across the Northeast, taking fifth place overall, and in both the A and B divisions...
...Kreuzberg area, Ismet Dertli puts the finishing touches on the curriculum for a new subject being offered in the city's public schools. It's a course that hasn't previously been taught in any government-sanctioned school, at least not for a few centuries: Turkish Alevism. This mystic brand of Islam is practiced by 25% of the more than 2.5 million Turks in Germany and up to 30% of Turkey's 66 million people - though you won't find them in any census. That's because Turkey, mindful of its fractious past, forbids large minorities from formally identifying themselves...
...Whether true or not in Rumi's case, it is a fate that has certainly befallen the words of many another Asian mystic imported to American shores. Having outgrown its old orthodoxies while remaining profoundly hungry for the spiritual nutrition they once provided, the Western world has for decades been culling through the most alluring and exotic blooms of Eastern poetry and philosophy in search of a "spirituality" completely unencumbered by the spiky thorns of "religion." From the Zen masters embraced by the Beats of the '50s, to the Hindu holy men momentarily adopted by the Beatles...
Simplicity is always the goal. This year I was going to donate the clothes I’ve had since Mystic Pizza, sell my extra coursebooks and buy a large supply of postage stamps. All this so I could minimize clutter and maximize efficiency while focusing my entire senior existence on my thesis...