Word: mysticism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...announcement of the exploding universe theory threw all grades of scientists-from semi-mystic philosophers to earthy materialists-into counterattack. Some critics could not believe that the nebulae move at such breakneck speed. Einstein's Relativity (supreme law of physics) says that nothing can move faster than light (186,000 miles per second). But Hubble and Humason have clocked a nebula about 250 million light-years away that seems to be moving at 26,000 miles per second, more than one-eighth the speed of light. They have glimpsed nebulae twice as far away. If the nebulae continue...
...work of art may have extremely small beginnings"; "the progress of an artist in creation is always toward . . . greater significance," etc. Poet Karl (An Essay on Rime) Shapiro finds that "tigers have a dual significance" for Stephen Spender, that "poetry is but one form of expression of mystic or demonic vision...
Applegate the Mystic was the unfortunately successful champion of an extremely well planned out trick, but Kimball had nothing to do with the mechanics of the Smoker Committee election in which Appellate made his debut. Kimball has been serving on the Freshman Affairs Committee, a group distinct from that which ran the smoker committee election...
...Great Mystic Purpose. Many readers are likely to resent Author St. John's fervent acceptance of New Yugoslavia. They will also resent his stunning platitudes (e.g., "In European countries where there is wild inflation the value of the native currency is constantly dropping") and his soap-opera similes ("When the sun came up, the Vardar Valley looked like a young woman in a transparent white negligee standing in the morning light rubbing the sleep out of her eyes"). But criticism should not perturb bearded Bob St. John, whose faith in Tito is matched by faith in his own powers...
...pains in this vital work, Whitehead was christened a "mystic" by many; but in the light of today his early searching and compelling conclusions stand as heartening indications of the latent capacity of mankind to understand itself...