Word: mysticism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the Ripley program took its microphones to Manhattan's Rockefeller Center parking lot to tell listeners that a Hindu mystic, Kuda Bux, was walking barefoot over burning coals. When Kuda Bux demonstrated his fire-walking to British scientists three years ago, they found this stunt genuine, favored the theory that his power is athletic, not psychic, lie in a trained ability to step lightly, quickly...
...Mystic, Conn., the 14th annual exhibition of the Mystic Art Association opened this week at Association galleries on the banks of the Mystic River. Cut more closely to the traditional pattern of summer shows than any other, with tea served on Thursday and young villagers holding square dances in the gallery, the Mystic exhibition was nevertheless far from stuffy, included an excellent oil by Kenneth Bates, a cocktail-hour scene At Five (see cut) by Robert Philipp, whose Dust to Dust won first honorable mention at last year's Carnegie International...
...Chancellery. In these rooms a young architect-engineer and a middle-aged ruler frequently stay up until 4 a. m. discussing changes, poring over designs. The two conferees are 33-year-old Professor Albert Speer and Chancellor Adolf Hitler. They determine in these all-night conferences the details of mystic, dreamy Adolf Hitler's pet building project-the reconstruction of Berlin, the remaking of a not-too-beautiful city into a worthy, magnificent capital of Greater Germany...
...makes an arresting picture-one that French, Roman Catholic Dr. Carrel is romantic and mystic enough to appreciate - two men, one an ageless seer, the other a young and devoted inventor, sitting on two rocks in the middle of a sea, talking, planning ways to prolong the life and end the ills of mankind...
...really important entries in Homer's journal, recurring about once a week, are his dreams of his old sweetheart Fran. These dreams start soon after he runs away from Buffalo, jealous because she talked to another boy. Homer believes his visions are mystic bulletins telling in exact detail what happens to her; he is, of course, 100% wrong. When, in one of them, Fran's clothesline breaks, Homer writes severely: "I should think Clark [her dream husband] could at least put up a wire clothesline...