Word: magic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...imported beer at 35? a bottle. A block from Ibadan's new University College, Nigerian necromancers sell dried mice, parrot beaks, snake fangs and yellow and blue face powders. On Sundays and pleasant evenings in Lagos, the folk who dress by day in rags emerge, as if by magic, in natty slacks and clean, yellow nylon sport shirts for an evening at the movies. And amid Nigeria's poverty, there are reportedly more African millionaires than in all the rest of the continent...
From passages like this it is not too far to the later magic...
This revolution has now happened. In the past ten years the world of electronics has evolved beyond recognition. Computers, the brains of the missiles, have grown in intelligence as fast as the magic unfolding of a child's mind. Rocket motors are lighter, more dependable, enormously more powerful...
...text is the second Idyll, one of literature's great love poems, by 3rd century B.C. Greek Poet Theocritus. The piece divides into four moods, as the forsaken girl Simaitha gathers magic spells, then tells the moon goddess how she met her lover, goes on to tell how she became his mistress, and finally explains his desertion and her determination to win him back. Sessions scarcely lets the soprano come up for air. At Louisville, Oklahoma-born Singer Audrey Nossaman needed all her excellent technique-and her strength -for some 40 minutes of music...
...city of Salzburg was aglow last summer with a magnificent production of Mozart's Magic Flute. To help usher in the Mozart year with style, the Austrians commissioned Oskar Kokoschka to design sets for the opera. The sets were a great success, and so was an extensive exhibit of Kokoschka's work at the Residenz Museum. Seventy year old Kokoschka was as bold as ever and from the looks of the large dramatic canvasses, sprawling with jotted forms and gushing color, gayer than usual. There was still a message but Kokoschka was definitely concentrating less on ideology and more...