Word: mysticism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cambridge Greene meets the two men who most influence him: Coppinger, Puritan conspirator, rebel and mystic; and Sidley, wealthy, adventure-loving rake...
...exclusively with this French school. He exerts in his writing a fascinating play of orchestral color and unusual rhythmic invention. His harmonies are bold and original; the dissonances resulting from free polyphony rather than arbitrary use of discord for its own sake. "A Pagan Poem" shows the composer mystic, idyllic even macabre. The modal atmosphere often felt in his music is the result of a strong impression made on him by the Russian liturgy with which he grew familiar as a young man visiting in Russia...
Garden of the Moon (Warner Bros.) represents a valiant effort on the part of its producers to understand and satisfy the mystic cravings of that big segment of the U. S. public now known as "jitter-bugs." Whether or not jitterbugs will like Garden of the Moon remains to be seen, but normal cinemaddicts probably will not. A morbidly cheerful little study of the rages induced in a café proprietor (Pat O'Brien) by his hysterical efforts to hire a satisfactory orchestra, it reaches its comic peak when he makes his pressagent (Margaret Lindsay) believe he is dying...
...shell knocked his mother out of bed during the Paris insurrection of 1871, Rouault was first apprenticed to a maker of stained glass, later became the favorite pupil of the academic painter, Gustave Moreau. Since Moreau's death in 1897, pale, clerkish Georges Rouault has lived a mystic, melancholy life. Every day he goes to the little Moreau museum, of which he is curator, near the Gare St. Lazare, often lunches violently with his old friend, Ambroise Vollard, returns to a mysterious home to paint, in brutal black outline, with dark glowing reds and blues like medieval stained glass...
...event in recent literary history has been the rediscovery of Bronson Alcott. Until two years ago this genial New England philosopher enjoyed an unread celebrity as the father of Louisa May Alcott, a friend of Emerson, one of the least coherent of the Transcendentalists, a slightly daffy but harmless mystic. Glimpses of Alcott in Van Wyck Brooks's The Flowering of New England exploded these literary myths. Odell Shepard's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Alcott, Pedlar's Progress, gave further proof of their injustice. This week the publication of long sections from Alcott's journals...