Word: magic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...White Magic. Brazil's top men are convinced that the way out, the economic road to the wealth and eminence Brazilians envision for their nation, is industrialization. The postwar manufacturing boom is only a beginning. Before industrial growth can proceed much further, as Cafe Filho and his economic advisers see it, the administration will have to slow galloping inflation to a walk. Because of inflation, much of Brazil's short supply of investment capital runs into real-estate speculation, or takes flight into dollar hoards. Too little capital is available for what Cafe Filho's Finance Minister...
...only the rhythms and the rhymes are there to sustain him. The true Lewis Carroll could only come later. Few children learn to love the Alice books at first sight. Their magic is too much born of the lonesomeness and the longing of a witty and sophisticated adult to return again to the gentle irresponsibilities of childhood and to view from there the absurdities of adult life. As a man, Lewis Carroll was an inspired escapist. As a boy, he seemed merely too anxious to be grownup. His bitterest plaint is that against a Victorian Good Fairy...
...Ellis Memorial in Boston, Robert C. Miller '57 and Noel Tyl '58 will present a magic and story-telling show. Tyl has performed as a magician in numerous night clubs...
Lower voices repeatedly chant "glance aside," while the sopranos sing in a more sustained line of "old enchantments." And the evocation of magic "where the greylight meets the green air" ends with the climactic cry "Suddenly!"--a word lifted from the poem's opening line...
...Ringwraiths, nine black-shrouded riders on nine black horses. Frodo and friends best them all, but in the modern manner, more by muddling through than by measuring up to their challenges. Obscure in allegorical meaning but apocalyptic in tone, The Fellowship of the Ring sometimes melts its magic in plausibility, forgetting that a fairy tale is a snow man that cannot be brought into the house...