Word: magic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...later paintings which during his lifetime of 29 years won the admiration of Augustus John, Diaghilev, Cocteau, Picasso, and which has caused them to be valued by their owners at prices up to $10,000 is a quality found everywhere in English poetry but exceptional in English painting : magic of imagery. Artist Wood sharpened his delicate color sense on Picasso but his line and composition were personal, quaint, candidly visionary. He produced nearly 500 oil paintings in ten years, turned out four a week during his last summer vacation in Brittany. London's definitive exhibition took three years...
...Hebrew University in Palestine presented a detailed mathematical treatment of the idea that the universe is not expanding but appears to do so because the atomic measuring rods by which it is observed are shrinking-an illusion like that of Alice in Wonderland who, after nibbling a magic mushroom, found that the animals and everything around her were getting bigger because she was getting smaller...
...more disheartening. Endless questions, questions he knows he can never answer, pose themselves in the Vagabond's mind. What is the future of the new balance of power for which Chamberlain is striving in Europe? After three hundred years of failure, can England, France, Germany, and Italy find a magic formula to keep the peace? Or will their efforts end like all the rest--in the ruin of another catastrophic...
...padlocked chains and an unscriptural mail-sack. He prayed for God's aid, escaped in a couple of minutes from his bonds, informed his delighted congregation that so could they escape the fetters of sin if they appealed to God. Declaring that religion is admirably "fitted to magic," Necromancer Plews promised to display his repertory of 3,200 tricks in future services...
Conclusion: "Is emotion a magic product, or is it a physiologic process which depends on an anatomic mechanism? . . . The evidence presented is ... suggestive of such a mechanism as a unit within the larger architectural mosaic of the brain...