Word: magic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...buoyant commander of World War II into a tired old man. But as the President of the U.S. plunged eagerly into a hectic round of private talks and public appearances, fear gave way to reassurance. "Ike's smile," reported Paris' Journal du Dimanche, "has again played its magic role...
...seminary with an enrollment of , more than 100 students on a 15-year course. One of his biggest problems: witchcraft, which he lets alone as long as it sticks to medicine, but attacks with a combination of logic and ridicule when it spills over into prophecy and sympathetic magic. Last year Bishop Bigirumwani consecrated Swiss Bishop Andre Perraudin at Kabgaye, Ruanda-the first white bishop ever to be consecrated by a Negro bishop on the African continent...
...Smith and His Son, and in a reissue of Howard Pyle's saga of the German robber barons. Otto of the Silver Hand. A tall tale is found in Daniel Boone's Echo, by William 0. Steele; poetry in Katherine Love's anthology, A Little Laughter; magic in Mary Norton's Bed-Knob and Broomstick; hobbies in Royal Wills's Tree Houses. The range is being pushed farther and farther from pram to prom, from pre-reading do-it-yourselfers (with buttons and Zippers fixed to the pages) to a growing number of teen...
Another symbol was the President of the U.S. in his courageous struggle, after three major illnesses, to climb not merely back to normalcy but to the surpassing heights required by the new day. Yet the magic seemed gone from the old reassurances, the rallying of forces, the bipartisan gathering of legislative leaders, the hurry-up new plans for NATO. These may once have been answers; now they were only parts of answers...
Robert Graves (Caedmon) reads his prose (from The White Goddess) with passion and his poetry with clean detachment, but both in the measured tones of a man setting the world straight. For lovers of magic and the Moon Goddess...