Word: mysticism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whether they meant Master of Sacred Theology or Master of Systematic Theology. I just looked up the diploma and find that it says Sacrae Theologiae Magister, but I wonder why the "sacrae." Isn't all theology sacred, or supposed to be? I vastly prefer your interpretation of the mystic initials as Master of Scientific Theology. Now if you will only change my useless B. D. (Bachelor of Divinity) to mean Darwin Booster, in recognition of my pro-evolution activities, my debt will be double...
Last week an arbitration treaty between the U. S. and France was signed at Washington by Under-Secretary of State Robert E. Olds and Poet-Statesman-Mystic Paul Claudel, French Ambassador...
...conviction of many an acute observer that a great play had been delivered to the world. Writhing and not always sharply articulate in the labor of his composition, Playwright O'Neill has done no tidy job. Raw life does not arrive that way. Uncompromising, tiny and horribly large, mystic and yet inestimably exact, Strange Interlude sweats blood...
...writer he is often criticized as one whose natural vein of mysticism has made him a Platonist, responsive to the mystic vein of Gaelic literature. Richness, sympathy, and mysticism are the chief marks of his lyric poetry, and appear also in his prose-drama on Irish tradition, "Deirdre". He is also a sympathetic and imaginative critic. Deeply interested in the social and political problems of Ireland, he has written and done much for his country in this connection. At one time he was the editor of The Irish Statesman...
...Molnar the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow is an old, jaded story, and the fleshpot an older. His successive wives have meant much to him, but so have the enormous slumbers and epicurean dinners which he loves. His selfishness is not the mystic ego culture of Count Keyserling but something earthy, practical...