Word: magic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...damply beneath a fly-blown Stetson. "All of that and all of that." The waving arms and lying words swished briefly before gaudy posters of improbable freaks. Somehow, out of the rain-bedraggled midway of the Gratz (Pa.) Fair, a crowd gathered. It always does when the harsh, vocal magic of Colonel Lew Alter begins to turn the tip (con the rubes) into his new "Can It Be Possible?" show...
Nelson Rockefeller thus faced the first ballot at Rochester unopposed and, as delegates waved banners proclaiming WE WANT ROCKY and ROLL WITH ROCK, his defeated rivals were still trying to figure out how he had done it. Pondered Leonard Hall: "There's magic in that name. I figured it would be just the opposite, that I'd go in and shake a woman's hand and that'd be that. Rockefeller did the same thing, and the women jumped for joy. I guess I didn't have that political sex appeal...
White's Merlyn was born in the future, is getting younger as he lives backwards through time. Merlyn teaches through the magic of metamorphosis: he is continually changing the Wart into some animal or other. As a fish, the Wart learns self-preservation from a pike; as a hawk, he acquires courage. He gets a taste of the 20th century totalitarian state by spending time in an ant colony, whose anthem is Antland, Antland Over All. Almost by accident, he comes across Excalibur...
Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus, just nominated (and thus elected) for his third term, had no such qualms. "Compliance," sneered Faubus, "cannot be obtained by invoking the sacred name of the Constitution, or by the use of the once-magic name of Eisenhower." At week's end he called a special session of the Arkansas legislature, asked it to pass a new set of anti-integration laws-in Southern anticipation of a final Supreme Court order to reintegrate Central High...
...Otto Witte, a lifelong circus performer who made his first public appearance as a lion tamer at the age of eight. All Otto had to offer was stories, but it was a blase man indeed who could walk away from Otto's tales of how his skill at magic won him the honorary chieftainship of an African Pygmy tribe, or of the time that he tried to elope with the Emperor of Ethiopia's daughter...