Word: magic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...best known books are "Joseph in Egypt," a monumental work as yet only partially written, and "The Magic Mountain," the novel which was instrumental in winning for its author the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1929. Of his other writings "Tonio Kreeger" and "Buddenbrooks" are the best known in America...
Mozart: Die Zauberflote (Berlin Philharmonic, Sir Thomas Beecham conducting, with Tiana Lemnitz. Erna Berger, Helge Roswaenge, Gerhard Hüsch and other artists; Victor: 2 volumes, 3-7 sides). The 18th-Century Masonic symbolism ol Mozart's great, quaint, rollicking fantasy-opera The Magic Flute is pretty vague to present-day audiences. But the music is some of the most beautiful Mozart wrote. Its first complete recording, less perfectly tooled but more spectacular than the Glyndebourne Don Giovanni (TIME, Oct. 3), is the record of the month...
...Modjeska, then the toast of half the theatres of the world, he confided his ambitions. Graciously she suggested a joint concert in Cracow, at which he would play and she would appear in dramatic recitations. The concert was given. Modjeska's name on the billboards acted like magic, and Paderewski was up the first notch in his laborious climb to fame...
...dinned Shakespeare's powerful, tragic lines into the ears of the sceptical and untutored younger generation for the last three hours? who had boomed it and shouted it over their wisecracks and embarrassed titterings until he finally wooed their interest by pure lung power? Once wooed, Shakespeare's own magic had a chance to function, and had won the evening. But how could this be that Macbeth...
While Manager Grippo continued to stare long range, the Tiger, who had built up a creditable reputation on his crushing punches, patted Bettina with no more force than a pussy cat's paw. In the eighth round, just as the Beaconites were beginning to yawn, the magic worked. Bettina's left hooks floored Grippo's victim twice in quick succession and in the middle of the next round the Tiger, staring stupidly, staggered to a neutral corner...