Word: magic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Statler Hilton, across the street from the Garden. I was told beforehand by mimeographed letter that I was to be part of the "special press" gallery, but given no further inkling to the particulars of my status. But while I was stepping out of the elevator I spotted a magic-markered poster tacked on the wall: "weeklies, college press, foreign broadcasters, this way." O.K., so I was lumped with the weeklies, but foreign broadcasters? An image of the Zoo Plane filled with technicians and foreign newsmen, described in Boys on the Bus, shot through my mind. Trouble...
Such success has inured window designers and their bosses to the inevitable complaints. Mary Avant, designer for Foley's department store in Houston, put together a weird display called "Black Magic": two male mannequins in black jockey shorts, four females in black evening wear. All the figures were spray-painted black and had limbs suspended apart from the torsos. "A little old lady came in and screamed, 'Oh, God, how horrifying!' " relates Avant. The store manager shrugged off the protest: two days later Foley's had no more of the garments to sell...
...when the representatives of 29 European Communist parties met in East Berlin last week (see THE WORLD), many of the leaders not only ringingly announced their independence from Moscow but insisted that in the West, at least, the only way of gaining power was through reliance on a magic word. The word is democracy, which Western European Communists now claim to espouse. It was in its own way quite a tribute to that conservative revolution...
...good with figures. There is something admirable about this, yet nagging questions remain: Where is the line between making the most of one's potential and reaching for the unattainable? Where is the line between education as a tool and education as a kind of magic? The line is blurred, and that is why when education fails, disillusionment is so bitter...
Died. Johnny Mercer, 66, onetime mellow-voiced blues crooner, four-time Oscar-winning lyricist; after a long illness and brain surgery; in Bel Air, Calif. As a lyricist, Mercer had a knack for turning the vernacular into such enduring pop songs as Jeepers Creepers, Lazybones, That Old Black Magic and Moon River...