Word: mysticism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Monday's Boston Globe, Dupont suggested that the "miracle" in Lake Placid would remain some kind of mystic beacon for succeeding U.S. Olympic Teams to fall short of. Dupont and others have hinted that it would be better if pros were brought in. Forget the upstart collegians. Bring in the guys who make a living playing hockey. Let them take on the Russians. Let them kick some...
...Third Law of Motion: for every U.S. action in Viet Nam, there came a (seemingly) equal and opposite reaction back home. America internalized the war, as if it had swallowed fire. In the fall of 1967, 35,000 demonstrators had marched on the Pentagon and in the hip-mystic style had attempted with chants to levitate the palace of the war machine. Draft resistance had become a conspicuous form of American political theater. Young men burned their draft cards in front of news cameras, the flames licking around the edges of the cardboard in a poetic echo of the televised...
...record's Broken Arrow, one of the best things he has ever written, brings together a delicate love song ("Do you feel what I feel/ Can we make that so it's part of the deal") with a gentle meditation on Indian pride and mystic communion, all united with a simple refrain: "Who else is gonna bring you/ A broken arrow/ Who else is gonna bring you/ A bottle of rain/ There he goes, moving across the water/ There he goes, turning my whole world around...
Despite their strange sense of humor, the staff of Arsenic and Old Lace are serious about their beliefs. "Wicca is a religion, a philosophy, and a way of life," says Floyd who is also a practicing mystic. But the widespread stereotype of witches as the evil, magic hags of legends and fairy tales is in no way related to modern reality, she is quick...
...work of 17th century Spain' s doctrinaire mystic Francisco de Zurbaran goes on magnificent display at the Metropolitan...