Word: mysticism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Swift Lathers, whose Mears, Mich., Newz is the smallest (four pages, 5¼ by 7¼ inches) and oddest newspaper in the United States. A poet and mystic who spends his summers in a tent and many of his nights pacing the dunes of Lake Michi gan, Editor Lathers makes a precarious living for his wife and three children (Thelma, Billo and Forest Glenn Lathers) by publishing such fascinating bits as the following: "Miss Cornelia Vander Zander is crocheting an oval rag rug to put her bare feet on these cold mornings when she steps out of bed. . . . Hooray, hooray...
...grateful enough that the ogling coal dealer neglected to leave a bill. To keep her at home he did the marketing himself, dressed in the cap, espadrilles and blue jeans of a workman, plus a famous white-polka-dotted red shirt that cost him less than two francs. The mystic poet, Max Jacob, helped Picasso, who steadfastly refused to do any "commercial" work. A terrific and efficient worker, to avoid interruptions Picasso soon took to painting all night, a habit which may have had something to do with the blueness of the Blue Period...
Outlawed in many German districts, the National Socialist Party nevertheless climbed steadily in membership. Time-honored Tammany Hall methods of handing out many small favors were combined with rowdy terrorism and lurid, patriotic propaganda. The picture of a mystic, abstemious, charismatic Führer was assiduously cultivated...
...Adams-Dunster debate last night on the latter's home ground, Dean Sperry declared that there are two fundamental types of religious groups: the prophetic, these who believe in the reality of time, and the mystic, those who look to the eternal life beyond time...
...prophetic type, or social gespel, Dean Sperry sees, embraces Judaism and early Christianity; the mystic type, or personal religion, includes Greek and Hindu beliefs. These two strands of philosophic thought have become mingled in "modern" Christianity...