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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...subtle art of establishing the sacred origin of profane events, Rumanian-born Scholar Eliade has no peer. A pipe-smoking polymath who speaks six languages and writes fluently in three, Eliade, 58, is a prolific novelist as well as chairman of Chicago's history of religion department. His new book, Mephistopheles and the Androgyne: Studies in Religious Myth and Symbol (Sheed & Ward; $5), demonstrates why he is probably the world's foremost living interpreter of spiritual myths and symbolism. Jerald Brauer, dean of Chicago's divinity school, and other scholars compare Eliade's works to those...
Mystic Light. Mephistopheles, originally a series of lectures delivered to the Eranos circle of scholars and artists influenced by Psychologist C. G. Jung, is typical of Eliade's work: sweeping in scope, it minutely traces the origin and development of several spiritual concepts through a variety of cultures. One example is the widespread experience of the "mystic light," such as that of a sober-minded, 19th century New York City businessman who was ecstatically converted to Christ after a dream in which he was suffused with light. Eliade shows how many otherwise disparate faiths offer similar experiences...
...Continent, the philosophical revolt took a different form. Germany's Edmund Husserl developed a "descriptive science" that he called phenomenology. His method was to examine and describe a particular experience-at the same time mentally blocking off any speculations about its origin or significance, any memories of similar experiences. By this act of epoche, a deliberate suspension of judgment, Husserl felt that the mind could eventually intuit the essence of the object being studied. Husserl's bafflingly difficult approach influenced such modern existentialist philosophers as Martin Heidegger and Jean-Paul Sartre...
Rich beyond most writers' dreams, Maugham became a kind of semipublic personage, a figure of Edwardian origin and habits, projecting an Ed wardian image on modern scenes. He looked like a character from one of his own novels: heavily lined patrician features, thin lips turned down at the corners, hooded eyes. Traveling the world in search of stories, he napped after lunch wherever he happened to be-aboard a tramp ship plowing the South Seas, in a Burmese hut or an outrigger canoe. Churchill, Wells, Cocteau, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, the Kings of Sweden and Siam called...
...version of For He's a Jolly Good Fellow. Gronouski responded in halting Polish: "It is hard for me to express how pleased I am to be able to work in this country, which is so dear to me as it is to millions of Americans of Polish origin...